Custome header

A link to your site and a note about what theme you are using would help us to answer your question.

Some templates require a header image to be a certain, fixed size. There are various ways of altering the code to avoid this. Which way is best will depend on the theme.

Cheers

PAE

Hello PAE

Sorry for the late reply, it was to nice a day for November not to go fishing.
I have since solved my problem in a round about way. My new header needed to be 940×198 pixels, the picture I was trying to use was 198×140 pixels, I did manage to resize (with the edit option from picture folder) the picture but always came out blurry.
I just looked for the exact size picture that I needed and it seemed to work out fine, for now. This might not always work of course.
I know how to write a little html code, in a beginner status. I would love to know how to change or alter the code to include all images, to show readable. My site https://rangefinder-golf.org I am now using the twenty one theme

Thanks

Hi bashista

I’m veggie so I can’t go along with the fishing; but I do see what you mean!

Can I just offer a word of warning about making changes to either the CSS or the HTML code of default themes? If you’re going to do that, you must use a Child Theme. Just in case you were thinking of altering any of the PHP/HTML/CSS…

The twentyeleven theme sets a height and width for the header image in a couple of PHP constants. I can’t remember exactly where. Possibly in functions.php, but wherever it is, it’s not trivial to change.

So what I usually do when I use this theme is to remove the header image altogether—which you can do in the ‘Header’ settings, as you know—and then add the code I want in order to add the required image, which is usually a logo, to the header. Something like this, for example:

<header id="branding" role="banner">
  <img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/yorkshire_dales_photography_small.jpg" alt="Yorkshire Dales Photography Logo" width="160px" height="54px" />

(From the site Yorkshire Dales Photography)

But you have to do something like this is a child theme, remember.

Cheers

PAE