Title: Hide header image not working?
Last modified: December 23, 2020

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# Hide header image not working?

 *  Resolved [absentfriends](https://wordpress.org/support/users/absentfriends/)
 * (@absentfriends)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-header-image-not-working/)
 * I’m migrating from a wordpress.com site, where I’ve used the Lovecraft theme 
   for years, to a self-hosted wordpress.org site, but I’m having trouble getting
   the theme to behave the way I want it to. I’d like to suppress the header image
   entirely — see [https://web.archive.org/web/20201022005414/https://superverbose.wordpress.com/](https://web.archive.org/web/20201022005414/https://superverbose.wordpress.com/)
   for reference.
 * However, even when I choose “hide image” in the Header Image section of customization,
   those mountains do not want to be moved. The “Current Header” part of that section
   says “No image set”, but I’m still seeing mountains.
 * Can somebody help me understand how to suppress the header image entirely?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fhide-header-image-not-working%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Theme Author [Anders Norén](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anlino/)
 * (@anlino)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-header-image-not-working/#post-13825818)
 * Hi [@absentfriends](https://wordpress.org/support/users/absentfriends/),
 * The WordPress.com and WordPress.org versions use two completely different code
   bases, so they differ somewhat in styling and functionality. The WordPress.org
   version of Lovecraft doesn’t support disabling the header image entirely, at 
   least not out of the box.
 * You can hide it by adding the following CSS to Appearance → Customize → Additional
   CSS:
 *     ```
       .header-image {
       	display: none;
       }
   
       .content {
       	margin-top: 0;
       }
   
       .wrapper.section {
       	border-top: 1px solid #ddd;
       }
       ```
   
 * — Anders
 *  Thread Starter [absentfriends](https://wordpress.org/support/users/absentfriends/)
 * (@absentfriends)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-header-image-not-working/#post-13827823)
 * Perfect! Thanks so much for the prompt help, and the excellent theme!
 *  Thread Starter [absentfriends](https://wordpress.org/support/users/absentfriends/)
 * (@absentfriends)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-header-image-not-working/#post-13828285)
 * Oh, except. That seems to have created a new problem: it apparently caused my
   sidebar to migrate alllll the way to the bottom of the screen.
 * This isn’t a problem on individual posts or pages, just on the front page. Still
   a pretty big bummer. Is there any way to tweak that CSS so that it doesn’t exile
   the sidebar to the wintry south on the home page?
 *  Theme Author [Anders Norén](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anlino/)
 * (@anlino)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-header-image-not-working/#post-13828450)
 * Hi [@absentfriends](https://wordpress.org/support/users/absentfriends/),
 * There seems to be a bigger issue, unrelated to the CSS. Something in the content
   of [this post](https://www.superverbose.com/2020/02/10/album-assignments-when-we-all-fall-asleep-where-do-we-go/)
   is breaking the structure of the markup, resulting in the sidebar and a lot of
   the other elements ending up below the footer. You can see it when viewing the
   post on its own as well.
 * Try removing the Spotify embed and check if that fixes it.
 * — Anders
 *  Thread Starter [absentfriends](https://wordpress.org/support/users/absentfriends/)
 * (@absentfriends)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-header-image-not-working/#post-13828799)
 * Whoo, great detective work. It wasn’t the spotify embed though — I’ve got dozens
   of those that didn’t cause any issues. However, I did need to revamp them since
   wordpress.org doesn’t handle spotify URIs in the same way.
 * While working on the Billie Eilish post, I was trying to wrestle WordPress back
   to the classic editor, and one of the stops along the way resulted in a bunch
   of boldgrid stuff getting inserted into the html. I thought I’d gotten rid of
   it, but didn’t notice that there were 4 `</div>` tags hanging out at the bottom
   of the post. Getting rid of those restored the sidebar to its proper place.
 * That’s twice I owe you! Thanks very much!

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