site title/description in header: replace with image?

  • I really have spent some time reading the documentation and looking at the theme files. I copied the customer-header.php file into my twenty seventeen child folder and made some very tentative experimental moves, without success.

    I have the text for title and description turned to ‘hidden’ and now I would like to replace them with an image. If you have a look, you can see the image at the top of the right sidebar; I want it to show up next to the logo (the typewriter) in the header. Any help much appreciated.

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    I copied the customer-header.php file into my twenty seventeen child folder

    It’s not a template file so you can’t do that. Copying files over into your Child Theme is for template files such as ‘footer.php’. You know something is a template by the comments at the top of the file.

    If you want to override functions in the ‘custom-header.php’ file you do so through the functions.php file of your Child theme.

    Thread Starter rosina lippi

    (@greenery)

    Okay, thank you. I thought if the footer.php file was a template the header would be one, too. WordPress themes are getting more complicated all the time, which is why I very much appreciate the free Twenty Seventeen theme and the support forum.

    However: I’m still stuck, because I have absolutely no idea what to add to the functions.php file in my child theme to replace the site title/description with an image. Any hints?

    Thread Starter rosina lippi

    (@greenery)

    I’m still hoping someone will be able to point me in the right direction on this. Anybody?

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    What’s putting me off helping is thinking how you would content manage this third image, without introducing a lot more work for us.

    Thread Starter rosina lippi

    (@greenery)

    Okay, well. I didn’t realize it would mean a lot of work for you. Would increasing the size of the icon also be a lot of work? Because that would also solve my problem.

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