[Theme: Mon Cahier] How to make header image link to homepage

Hi there, I just took a look at your site and I like what you did. Unfortunately, the theme isn’t coded so that the header image is linked to the home page. It’s meant to have a title and description. However there is a way around that. It does take a bit of coding, but it’s pretty easy.

The first thing you’ll want to do is make a child theme.

Once you have a child theme, you should have a folder (call it mon-cahier-child or whatever you want). That folder will have a style.css with the following info in it.

/*
Theme Name: Mon Cahier Child
Description: Child theme for the mon cahier theme
Author: Your name here
Template: mon-cahier
*/

@import url("../mon-cahier/style.css");

}

Next you want to open the parent theme (mon-cahier) and copy the header. php. Bring that entire file in your child theme. Open it in a text-editor and on line #39, you can edit the line like so:

<a href="https://www.theslenderstudent.com"><img src="<?php header_image(); ?>" width="<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH; ?>" height="<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT; ?>" alt="" /></a>

That’s it. Once you are done that, you might also want to install a plugin like WordPress SEO. Because you’ve removed the site title and description, your page titles now are not very informative. Just a thought..

Good luck.

@theslenderstudent
According your theme you have to delete some line in your header.php file such as:

<?php $header_image = get_header_image();
		if ( ! empty( $header_image ) ) { ?>

			<img src="<?php header_image(); ?>" width="<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH; ?>" height="<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT; ?>" alt="" />

		<?php } // if ( ! empty( $header_image ) ) ?>

And add this code in your header.php file:

<?php $heading_tag = ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) ? 'h1' : 'div'; ?>
      <<?php echo $heading_tag; ?> id="site-title">
        <span>
          <a href="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a>
        </span>
      </<?php echo $heading_tag; ?>>

After this, you have to edit in style.css of your theme:

#site-title {
float: left;
  padding: 10px 0;
  width: 960px;
}
#site-title a {
  color: #000;
  font-weight: bold;
  text-decoration: none;
  font-size: 180px !important;
  display: block;
  text-indent: -999em;
  background: url('image.jpg'); //path of your image
  height:200px;
}