Wordpress themes

[Dbm811]

I would realy like to see some updates to the themes we have to choose from, so we can customize our webiste in a way to make it unique.
I despreatly need to add a logo to my site i have tryed via editing the html codes but havent had any luck with it, but adding a logo is just one of the things we should beable to change.

Hope something is comming in the near future?
But other wise the themes looks great.

[clivejo]

Hi Dbm811 and welcome to the forum.

The themes are customizable and you can add your own logo etc If you look in the theme folder and modify the header.php

<div id="header">
    <span id="header_logo"><?php if(!empty($rpwp_logo_url)) echo '<img src="'.stripslashes($rpwp_logo_url).'" alt="logo" align="left" style="margin-right:5px;" />'; ?><a href="<?php echo home_url()?>"><?php bloginfo('name')?></a></span>

By modifying this section you can insert your own logo

[Dbm811]

Thanks i will try it out, it isent easy to customize when i dont have the coding skills.

[iads]

Look at MakeItWP.com

[clivejo]

Ddm81, no-one instinctively knows how to code. We have all learned how to do it via asking questions like you have just done. The internet makes it a lot easier as most questions are solved via asking a search engine! There are also a lot of great guides written in simple, easy to understand language.

Feel free to ask, we will try our best to help you.

[clivejo]

Use the online editor from within WP. in your dash board Appearance > Editor

On the right select your current theme from the drop down list, click Select. Find "header.php" in the list that appears and click it. The file is loaded into the middle text editor where you can make the changes required, then click Update File.

Simple :P

[Dbm811]

This is what im seeing at that location how can i change this to get my own logo in?
<div id="header">
<h1 id="header_logo"><a href="<?php echo home_url()?>"><?php bloginfo('name')?></a></h1>
<h5 id="header_logo"><?php bloginfo('description')?></h5>

[doneritehosting]

Wordpress admin - media -- add new - upload your logo image right click and copy the image url. Then Wordpress admin - Appearance - Theme Options - you will see the option to enter a logo url. Paste the image url there then save. The logo will not be clickable by default but a little google searching will remedy that. There are several different ways to make your logo clickable in wordpress but you will have to trial and error to find the method that works with rsp's themes as I have forgotten the site with the correct code modification which you will have to add from the theme editor.

I do not use a logo because rsp's themes do not include the feature to not display the site title and tagline, you actually have to remove them from WP settings to not display below the logo and throw your whole site alignment out of whack and some plugins use this for functionality and alot of the rsp shortcodes use the site title and you will have to go through your whole site and modify the shortcodes that display the site title (some are in the meta tags) or you will have alot of funny content.

Also, once you have everything in the header like you want it, copy the header code to a txt file and save it. If you update your theme to a newer version you will lose your custom header content and have to start all over if you don't. Same goes for the footer.

Also, RSP is supposed to introduce a coupon like system (soon I hope) and from what I read there are going to be theme updates to accommodate the feature... You might have to let your static pages update for it to work and custom content may be lost... Maybe someone from RSP will jump in and comment on this to clarify what is going to be involved.

[foxsch]

I'd like to be able to do the same.
I'm using the Hosting Zen theme, it doesn't have the rich media theme option that doneritehosting refers to, but as far as I know this:

<div id="header_title">
        <h1 id="header_logo"><a href="<?php echo home_url()?>"><?php bloginfo('name')?></a></h1>
        <h5 id="header_logo"><?php bloginfo('description')?></h5>
    </div>

is the relevant part of ../header.php, and there is reference to a header logo in ../style.css:

/*****************************************/
/*** Site Title and Description in the Header ***/
/*****************************************/
#header_logo{
    height:44px;
    margin:0px auto;
    padding:25px 0 0 0;
}
h1#header_logo a{
    font-family: 'Nevis', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    text-decoration:none;
    font-size:36px;
    line-height:44px;
    font-weight:bold;
    text-transform:uppercase;
    display: block;
    color:#fff;
}
h5#header_logo {
    margin:-10px auto 0;
    padding:0px;
    font-family: 'Nevis', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    font-size:20px;
    line-height:30px;
    font-weight:bold;
    display: block;
    color:#fe7c5d;
}

/*****************************************/

but I do know that if I try and add any of the php, referred to by clivejo it is highly likely I will break the site ?> never a good thing.
Thankfully, all I need is a simple logo image to sit to the left of the site name ~ Can anybody help?

[foxsch]

whoops _ sorry guys I fixed it already ~ I added a simple < img src here:

<div id="header_title">
        <h1 id="header_logo"><img src="http://blah.jpg" alt="logo" align="left" style="margin-left:70px;" style="padding-right:5px;" /><a href="<?php echo home_url()?>"><?php bloginfo('name')?></a></h1>
        <h5 id="header_logo"><?php bloginfo('description')?></h5>
    </div>

and it worked fine - just a tweak to get to sit next to the header text ~ but hey you still saved a lot of googling!
The resellers panel wordpress themes don't seem to get much support anywhere else, so absolutely priceless threads ~ cheers!

[clivejo]

If you want the logo hyperlinked (ie that clicking it will bring you to your homepage) it would be better to change the code slightly to this.

<div id="header_title">        
     <h1 id="header_logo"><a href="<?php echo home_url()?>"><?php bloginfo('name')?><img src="http://blah.jpg" alt="logo" align="left" style="margin-left:70px;" style="padding-right:5px;" /></a></h1>        
     <h5 id="header_logo"><?php bloginfo('description')?></h5>    
</div>

Basically you are enclosing the image in hyperlink HTML code, therefore making it a link.

[foxsch]

Aha! That's excellent clivejo, thank you.
I hadn't noticed that the header image wasn't hyper-linked to the home page.
I often find myself clicking that area of a website to return to a homepage URL, so I'm sure others do the same.