Long horizontal header

[Lohan GroblerMember Post count: 1]

Hi Tim,

Is it possible to apply a long horizontal image at the very top of the page before the title and logo?

[themeweaverKeymaster Post count: 730]

First of all you need to consider that this is a responsive theme. So what will a long full width header image look like on a iphone, ipad, small desktop, large desktop… etc? It would be hard to make it look good imho.

To put something at the top like this you would need a custom header.php file in a child theme.

The preferred place for a large header image would be at the top of the main content area. This way, the responsive part of the theme is less affected.

There is a hook for this, so that in a functions.php in a child theme you could do something like:

add_action( 'livingos_abovemain', 'mynew_image');

function mynew_image() {

   echo '<img src="http://url-of-image/" />';

}

[Lohan GroblerMember Post count: 1]

Uhm sorry for my ignorance, I am pretty new to this.

Do I have to create a header.php file and place it in the child theme folder and then go into my child theme’s functions.php file and add the code in there?

Do I have to first create the classes ‘livingos_abovemain’ and ‘mynew_image’ in my child theme’s styles.css?

[themeweaverKeymaster Post count: 730]

Not really. This is fairly advanced stuff.

And it isn’t CSS, this is PHP. You would need some CSS too, but I haven’t covered that above.

And you don’t need to edit header.php if you choose the preferred option of adding the hook code.

Everything you do should be done in a child theme though:
http://themeloom.com/support/framework-codex/developers/creating-a-child-theme/

We do also offer customisation services if need : http://themeloom.com/custom-wordpress-themes/

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