Newbie questions: widgets and logos

Without seeing a widget’s output, it’s hard to see what could be done to help.

how can I replace the header big text with a logo, and make that logo a clickable one pointing to the root url?

On that theme, it will take quite a fair amount of customisation to to add an image to the header markup.

Hi esmi, thank you for your answer.

Here is an image of how a widget looks when I add it (the default ones dissapear).

https://img128.imageshack.us/img128/7301/screenshot011.png

About the logo…. is it that hard to just put a logo?

My guess is that your functions.php file needs editing to replicate the non-widgetized markup when you use widgets.

And, yes – looking at your current theme/design, adding a logo would involve a fair bit of work. The design simply isn’t built to allow the easy insertion of a logo image.

Thank you again for your answer, I will try to put a logo there.

I paste here my functions.php, if someone with a little knowledge of php can take a look at it and maybe help me with making those widgets work like the default ones, it’ll be appreciated ??

<?php

if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) )
register_sidebar(array(
‘before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”block”>’,
‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’,
‘before_title’ => ‘<div class=”label”>’,
‘after_title’ => ‘</div>’,
));

function mdv_recent_posts($no_posts = 5, $before = ‘

• ‘, $after = ‘

‘, $hide_pass_post = true, $skip_posts = 0, $show_excerpts = false, $include_pages = false) {
global $wpdb;
$time_difference = get_settings(‘gmt_offset’);
$now = gmdate(“Y-m-d H:i:s”,time());
$request = “SELECT ID, post_title, post_excerpt FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ “;
if($hide_pass_post) $request .= “AND post_password =” “;
if($include_pages) $request .= “AND (post_type=’post’ OR post_type=’page’) “;
else $request .= “AND post_type=’post’ “;
$request .= “AND post_date_gmt < ‘$now’ ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT $skip_posts, $no_posts”;
$posts = $wpdb->get_results($request);
$output = ”;
if($posts) {
foreach ($posts as $post) {
$post_title = stripslashes($post->post_title);
$permalink = get_permalink($post->ID);
$output .= $before . ‘‘ . $post_title . ‘‘;
if($show_excerpts) {
$post_excerpt = stripslashes($post->post_excerpt);
$output.= ‘
‘ . $post_excerpt;
}
$output .= $after;
}
} else {
$output .= $before . “None found” . $after;
}
echo $output;
}
?>

Try replacing:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar(array(
'before_widget' => '<div class="block">',
'after_widget' => '</div>',
'before_title' => '<div class="label">',
'after_title' => '</div>',
));

with

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
	register_sidebar(array(
	'before_widget' => '',
	'after_widget' => '',
	'before_title' => '<h2">',
	'after_title' => '</h2>',
));

Hehe, thank you! I’ll try that!

I tried it, you can check how it looks, I believe there’s an image missing there, the one that goes at the back of the letters. Also, the letter did not get the correct formatting.

Maybe I just should change template….

The thing you said about the logo being hard to add, does it mean this theme sucks? I mean, good themes should have an easy option for a logo, or that’s not necessary so?

No – it doesn’t mean that the theme is bad. Some themes have header customisation options that are available via the Admin interface. Others require that you have at least a little knowledge of CSS or HTML.

The theme you have chosen was never really intended to be used with a graphical header. It’s a pretty low-graphic, almost minimalistic theme and there is quite a call for such themes. If you want to use a graphical header, though, it might be better if you start with a theme that already has such a header.