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Implement A Custom Header In Thesis

One of the most common questions we receive from our customers is how to display a custom logo or banner in the header of our Thesis skins. In this tutorial The Bandits show you how to style your header in Thesis with ease.

Requirements

  • Your custom logo or banner.
  • Text Editor
    - We recommend Notepad++ for Windows and TextMate for Mac OS X

The Instructions

The first step is to record the height and width of the image that you plan to use. Afterwards upload the image to your /custom/images folder. Once you are done, open your custom.css file in your text editor.

Thesis uses the id elements #header #logo to define the site name in the header. Place the following code in your custom.css file to replace the site name with your image…

.custom #header #logo a {
  background: url('images/your_image_name.jpg') no-repeat;
  display: block;
  text-indent: -9999px;
  height: (image height)px;
  width: (image width)px;
}

As an example if I had a logo named wpbandit-logo.png with a width of 140px and a height of 50px, I would put the following in my custom.css file…

.custom #header #logo a {
  background: url('images/wpbandit-logo.png') no-repeat;
  display: block;
  text-indent: -9999px;
  height: 140px;
  width: 50px;
}