Title: Solon Header
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Solon Header

 *  [rothaar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rothaar/)
 * (@rothaar)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solon-header/)
 * Hi all
 * I’ve been trying to find out how I can customise the header (at least to a certain
   extent). I seem to be going round in circles though. I’m not familiar with CSS
   at all and wouldn’t know where to start if I had to use a child theme (read about
   it). I tried several plugins (to customise the theme/header), but I couldn’t 
   get any of them to work. I got the message that the theme does not support customised
   headers after installing the last plugin, so I assume that’s the reason the plugins
   never worked. I’m hoping that somebody knows of a simple solution …
 * What I would like to do is the following:
    I would like to keep the background
   colour of the header and add an image to the right of the header and keep the
   title/subtitle.
 * If I upload the image via the theme customisation it removes the site title/subtitle
   and the image looks rather horrible.
 * I would also like to add my social media buttons (follow me) to the header, if
   possible.
 * I hope somebody can help.
 * Thank you.

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 *  Thread Starter [rothaar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rothaar/)
 * (@rothaar)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solon-header/#post-5292890)
 * I forgot to mention the link to my website. Here it is: [http://rothaar.co.uk/](http://rothaar.co.uk/)
 *  [vladff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vladff/)
 * (@vladff)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solon-header/#post-5292999)
 * Hello,
 * Doing what you want would imply overwriting the header.php from a child theme
   and might get a bit complex.
 * An easier way would be, as you’ve already tried, to upload a logo from the Customizer.
   By looking horrible I’m guessing you mean that it’s too big? In that case, you
   can either resize the image before you upload it, or you can set something like
   this from a custom CSS plugin:
 *     ```
       .site-branding {
           max-height: 150px;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [rothaar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rothaar/)
 * (@rothaar)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solon-header/#post-5293047)
 * Hi Vladff
 * Thank you for your reply. I have tried a test image in different sizes. It always
   ends up in the middle and the website title/subtitle disappears. I suppose I 
   would have to overwrite the header. php (child theme) if I wanted the logo in
   a certain place?
 * I don’t understand why the title disappears though. Is there no way to avoid 
   that?
 * Thank you.
 *  [vladff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vladff/)
 * (@vladff)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solon-header/#post-5293056)
 * That’s how the theme works, you upload a logo image instead of the site title
   and description.
 * If you want to avoid this, you would need to create a child theme and overwrite
   the header.php from there. You would need to find this:
 *     ```
       <div class="site-branding">
       ....
       ....
       </div>
       ```
   
 * and replace it with this: [http://pastebin.com/b2pkUdf3](http://pastebin.com/b2pkUdf3)
   
   This will set 50% of the space for the title and 50% for an image (uploaded with
   the customizer). Depending on your image, this might look good or bad 🙂 _Not
   tested_.
 *  Thread Starter [rothaar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rothaar/)
 * (@rothaar)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solon-header/#post-5293186)
 * Sorry for not replying earlier. I’ve been very busy.
 * I’ll look into creating a child theme (can’t be that hard :D). Thank you for 
   now. 🙂

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## Tags

 * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/)
 * [header image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header-image/)
 * [header size](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header-size/)
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 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [rothaar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rothaar/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solon-header/#post-5293186)
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