Title: Header image disappered
Last modified: September 7, 2016

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# Header image disappered

 *  Resolved [Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stoetzman/)
 * (@stoetzman)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-image-disappered/)
 * Hi
 * I moved my website, the index.php + .htacess, in the root folder. All links are
   working, all images are there. Basically everything works fine, except from the
   header image on the start page. It’s not showing up.
    When I moved the website
   I followed [those steps](http://askwpgirl.com/move-wordpress-from-subdirectory-to-root-directory/).
   Everything seems to be okay. Could it be the theme update? I’m using a child 
   theme by the way. my website: [tischlerei-lembke.de](http://tischlerei-lembke.de/)
   Thanks in advance, Thomas

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 *  Theme Author [Tomas Mackevicius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomasm/)
 * (@tomasm)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-image-disappered/#post-8155267)
 * Can you try just to re-assign the header from Customizer?
 *  Thread Starter [Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stoetzman/)
 * (@stoetzman)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-image-disappered/#post-8157481)
 * Thanks for your quick reply.
    I’m not sure what you mean by ‘re-assign’ the header
   from Customizer? but I can’t change the header image in Customizer. If I activate
   the parent theme it works; if I use the child theme, it doesn’t.
 * I forgot to tell, when I move everything back to the sub-directory and change
   the index.php from “require (‘./joerg/wp-blog-header.php)” to “require (‘./wp-
   blog-header.php)” it works again.
 *  Theme Author [Tomas Mackevicius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomasm/)
 * (@tomasm)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-image-disappered/#post-8157578)
 * That article you were using, actually only emulates the moving of the site, as
   site still would be in subdir, but WP would display paths as it would be in the
   main dir. Personally I moved site from subdir only once and I did it in a real
   way – moved all installation.
 * Do you want to try full move?
 *  Thread Starter [Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stoetzman/)
 * (@stoetzman)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-image-disappered/#post-8158205)
 * I have done it many times and never had a problem. Maybe I need to create a new
   child theme but I’ll give your idea a go first. I’ll let you know.
 * Thanks for your help
 *  Thread Starter [Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stoetzman/)
 * (@stoetzman)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-image-disappered/#post-8158427)
 * Hi Tomas,
    I moved the entire installation into the root folder. It works now.
   Not sure what the problem was. I like the idea of having the installation in 
   a sub-folder. I heard it’s more secure and I personally think it looks tidier.
   But that’s just me 😉
 * Thanks again for your support
 *  Theme Author [Tomas Mackevicius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomasm/)
 * (@tomasm)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-image-disappered/#post-8161040)
 * My take is that WP by default expects to be in the root of public_html, so I 
   think this way there are less possibilities to have some conflicts with plugins,
   but perhaps I’m not right.
 * For the security I use .htaccess in the wp-admin to filter by IP address of incoming
   connection, so only I would be able to dial-in:
 *     ```
       AuthUserFile /dev/null
       AuthGroupFile /dev/null
       AuthName "Access Control"
       AuthType Basic
       order deny,allow
       deny from all
       # whitelist home IP address
       allow from 00.000.000.000
       ```
   
 * Another measure – I like to relocate wp-config.php file to upper dir outside 
   of public_html:
 * [https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/74972](https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/74972)
 * I also use bad behavior plugin to filter many bots:
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/bad-behavior/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bad-behavior/)
 * But of course these days there are many more good security plugins.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by [Tomas Mackevicius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomasm/).
 *  Thread Starter [Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stoetzman/)
 * (@stoetzman)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-image-disappered/#post-8161786)
 * Hey, thank you for the advice re. security. Very helpful 🙂

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-image-disappered/#post-8161786)
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