Removing Header/banner title text

Hi Justin,
Don’t feel confident enough to mess with the header code (i’m totally ignorant of PHP). And yes, you’re correct, removing the blog title from WP means that the title disappears from the browser but is this a big problem (when I open my blog it shows https://www.creative-i.info/ instead of Creative-i.

My banner image is in place.

Bill

Bill, I’ll give you the same block I gave Rain, just a cut and paste fix to allow you to use the title and have your header image clickable. (note: backup header.php just in case, you never know)

Take everything in the header tag: (Don’t have my Dev machine otherwise I’d quote the PHP stuff too)

<div id="header">
	<div id="header-image">
		<h1>PHP code..blahblah..</h1>
		<div class="description"></div>
	</div>
</div>

and just paste the following over it:

<div id="header">
	<a href="https://www.creative-i.info/">
<div id="header-image">
		<h1></h1>
		<div class="description"></div>
	</div>
</a>
</div>

This should allow you to use a blog title and have the top click able to get “Home” in sub pages. You might be able to remove the <h1></h1> but it may not render correctly if you do that – I’m not in a CSS mindset today.

Thanks for this but I’m using an adapted ‘Coffee Chick’ Theme which doesn’t contain the code you included above. Just to make sure that the header.php didn’t already exclude the WP title I added it and sure enough it appears on top of the image.

Bill

This is what I found:

<div id=”header”>
<div id=”header-image”>
<h1>/”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></h1>
<div class=”description”><?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?></div>
</div>
</div>
<hr />

Bill

In the CSS

h1 a {display: none}

OR

h1 a {text-indent: -3000px} [better way to go]

No need to mess in template files.

Hi,
I assume you mean in the style.css for the theme. I’m a real novice at this, so before I make any move, I need to check (and double-check) before making changes.

I found several refs to the h1 style description in the css file including this one:

h1 {
font-size: 3.4em;
text-align: center;
}

Is this the one to replace because there are other refs to h1?

Bill

Thats the one. But h1 will affect all h1. My rule affects h1 a (s) which are links. Generally there is only one.

Okay, 3000px doesn’t do it (some of the text is stilll poking out of the left side), neither does 4000. How many pixels should I shove it over?

Neither does -5000. In fact, the title hasn’t moved at all, it’s still stuck on the extreme left of the layout.

Okay, this works: h1 a {display: none} (Why is it not as good a solution?)

Bill

Its to do with feed readers. But do not worry. Its fixed. ??

I do have feeds for the site. I wish I knew more about this software! But I’m a writer and really don’t want to spend an awful lot time hacking code (and learning PHP). My old site which I created from scratch is just plain ‘ol HTML (with some Java thrown in) but the reason I switched to WP (having checked out a lot of the blog software around) is the time I spend creating pages for the site (over 2 gigabytes and growing), plus the fact that my G4 is groaning under the load.

But thanks for the help, all? I need to do now is sort out the backup problem I’ve got and then doing the upgrade!

Bill