Title: Customise header file
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Customise header file

 *  [Mike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikefarrell/)
 * (@mikefarrell)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customise-header-file/)
 * Hi
 * I wonder if anybody can tell me how easy or hard it will be to customise the 
   header file of a theme so I can add a big search bar to it? … Maybe some pointers
   of how to do it would be great also?
 * Mike

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customise-header-file/#post-6719747)
 * There isn’t an absolute answer for all themes. Which theme are you working with?
 *  Thread Starter [Mike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikefarrell/)
 * (@mikefarrell)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customise-header-file/#post-6719753)
 * Well I have 2 questions:
 * 1) In all sites with a big search bar – like a property site, they always seem
   to place the search bar in the hesder. Why do people customise the header with
   a search bar? – Why wouldnt they put it in the main body of the site?
 * 2) To answer your question – I was thinking of using the Avada theme but I was
   told that the header and footer are not ‘drag and drop areas’ … I’m new to WordPress
   so I’m probably best having a theme that I can simply just add a search widget
   into the header …. Is this possible?
 * Mike
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customise-header-file/#post-6719754)
 * > Why do people customise the header with a search bar? – Why wouldnt they put
   > it in the main body of the site?
 * You’d need to ask the theme developers who put the search bar in the header, 
   because as far as I’m aware there is no requirement to put the search bar in 
   the header.
 * The Avada theme is a commercial theme so you’ll need to talk to the vendors of
   that theme.
 *  Thread Starter [Mike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikefarrell/)
 * (@mikefarrell)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customise-header-file/#post-6719756)
 * Ok
 * I guess you can get themes where you can customise the header with widgets – 
   right?
 * Mike

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