Title: H 1 Problem-
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# H 1 Problem-

 *  Resolved [EarleeBird](https://wordpress.org/support/users/earleebird/)
 * (@earleebird)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h-1-problem/)
 * Since day 1, when my website has been analyzed, I have 2 \”Header 1\”\’s. I have
   tried to go in to \”customize\” and just delete the site title text, but what
   ever tool I analyze my site with, says I have 2 Header 1\’s,(my site name) on
   all pages. This must be a code/html problem. Even though I am a newbie, I have
   already gone in to fix code, so I can probably fix this if you give me the code
   and tell me EXACTLY where to put it. Thanks.
    [http://www.plexuschangeyourlife.com](http://www.plexuschangeyourlife.com)

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 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h-1-problem/#post-5011727)
 * There’s nothing wrong with having more than one <header> tag. It’s a [new HTML5](http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_header.asp)
   tag. What analysis tool is giving you an error? The [W3 Validator](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.plexuschangeyourlife.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0)
   doesn’t report any errors related to multiple header elements on your site.
 *  Thread Starter [EarleeBird](https://wordpress.org/support/users/earleebird/)
 * (@earleebird)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h-1-problem/#post-5011728)
 * Thank you SO much for replying. This is an SEO problem. Having 2 H1 on a page
   is not optimal. Some say it is a ding to my google rank.
 * This is what I see, using SEOquake, but this is seen on others as well.
 * Headings
    H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6 2 4 5 0 0 0
 *  <H1>: Plexus- Change Your Life
    <H1>: Plexus Home <H2>: Get Your Body Back in
   Sync! <H2>: WELCOME TO PLEXUS CHANGE YOUR LIFE ! <H2>: “The Pink Drink That Makes
   You Shrink”
 * That is from my home page. Here is from another page:
 * Headings
    H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6 2 2 5 0 0 0
 *  <H1>: Plexus- Change Your Life
    <H1>: Arthritis <H2>: Get Your Body Back in 
   Sync! <H2>: PLEXUS SLIM ARTHRITIS
 * It seems that the <H1>: Plexus Change Your Life appears on all pages, and each
   title for each page has it’s own H1, as it should.
 * I need to get rid of that <H1>: Plexus Change Your Life.
 * Maybe somewhere in my php.headers html?
 * I hope this makes sense?
 * (more)
 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h-1-problem/#post-5011731)
 * OK, thanks for the clarification. I saw the word “header” in your original message
   and thought you were referring to the <header> tag.
 * Yes, the header.php file writes the h1 **site-title** to the header. However,
   instead of editing the theme’s header.php file directly, you should create a 
   [child theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) and make a copy of the
   header.php file in your child theme folder. The reason why a child theme is recommended
   is that if the Twenty Twelve theme ever gets upgraded because of a bug fix or
   security patch, your changes will be lost.
 * So you would then make the change in the copy of header.php. Here is the line
   that you are looking for:
 *     ```
       <h1 class="site-title"><a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a></h1>
       ```
   
 * You need to change the **h1** in both the opening tag at the beginning of the
   line, and the closing tag at the end of the line. The site title isn’t even visible
   on your site, so you can change it to whatever other tag you want. I’m not sure
   if that was intentional or not; I’ve read that if the site title isn’t visible
   on a site, it could negatively affect rankings.
 *  Thread Starter [EarleeBird](https://wordpress.org/support/users/earleebird/)
 * (@earleebird)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h-1-problem/#post-5011737)
 * Yes, I do need to create a child theme. I have been avoiding that, but I see 
   why I should. I recently messed up my site, and was able to restore it with a
   back-up, but I did not know that upgrades can make me lose my changes (I assume
   you mean my html changes).
 * On the issue of changing the code you provided, I get where I should do this,
   but I do not understand “change it to whatever other tag you want”. I just don’t
   want to have two H1 headers, only the page title as H1.
 * On the issue of my site title not being visible, no it’s not intentional. I have
   gone into “appearance”-“customize”- “site title &tag line”, entered the text,
   and it doesn’t show. I have put the site title and tag line in the top of my 
   homepage content to compensate.
 * If you can help me with those specifics, I will probably find someone to fix 
   this for me. I will show them the info you have provided and make sure it gets
   done correctly.
 * Thank you again! I very much appreciate your help!
 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h-1-problem/#post-5011738)
 * > but I do not understand “change it to whatever other tag you want”.
 * Just change the **h1** to **h2**. I originally said “whatever other tag you want”
   because the site title is hidden, so it really didn’t matter what tag you used.
   But since you actually want to display the site title, change it to **h2**. Or
   you can change it to another header tag that’s not being used, like **h4** or**
   h5**, and just change the font-size of the **site-title** class using CSS so 
   it still displays larger.
 * As far as your site title goes, it looks like you found out what was causing 
   it to be hidden, a rule that set the position to **absolute**. Congratulations!
 *  Thread Starter [EarleeBird](https://wordpress.org/support/users/earleebird/)
 * (@earleebird)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h-1-problem/#post-5011753)
 * Well, I took this thread and my laptop to a guy who fixed the problem! Yipee!
   I think I have a google-viable website, at least a major improvement from before.
   Thank you!
    I will be checking out your link to the child theme info. The changes
   were made in my parent, so I will save this thread. I am having other issues 
   as well, that I have seen others have—“missing:author” and “missing:update”, 
   in Structured Data in Webmaster Tools. I have seen ways for to fix this, but 
   I won’t do it until I get my child theme set up. I also up UpDraft plug-in for
   back-up. It works! But if my theme gets an update, then if I have to restore 
   my site/data at some future time, does that mess up the theme update? Just curious.
   Not important, like having a functional website…:-)
 * Thanks again! I owe you a beer!
 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h-1-problem/#post-5011754)
 * > But if my theme gets an update, then if I have to restore my site/data at some
   > future time, does that mess up the theme update?
 * I’ve never used UpDraft, but from what I read on their page, it looks like you
   can choose what to restore. So if a theme gets updated, you can restore just 
   your data (although a theme update won’t affect your data anyway, so really no
   need to do a restore on a theme update). But if you do restore your theme from
   the backup, that will overwrite the theme update. So that’s the point behind 
   creating a child theme: an update to the parent theme won’t destroy any changes
   you made through the child.
 * I will say that since Twenty Twelve is a couple of years old, the chances of 
   it being updated because of a feature update are less than the newer themes (
   Twenty Thirteen or Twenty Fourteen). However, the Twenty ## themes are maintained
   by the WordPress development team, and they are fairly responsive to any security
   patches that need to be installed, so it’s not out of the question that the theme
   may be updated at some point in the future.
 *  Thread Starter [EarleeBird](https://wordpress.org/support/users/earleebird/)
 * (@earleebird)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h-1-problem/#post-5011765)
 * Thanks again!
    This has all been very helpful. I just installed a plug-in, Child
   Theme Configurator, and it will let me select the files “header.php” and whatever
   else I want to save, with the changes I have previously made, into the new child
   theme. So if this plugin works, it will be fantastic, because it certainly has
   been easy! Fingers crossed…. 🙂

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