Help with header / logo / description

Since WooThemes Mystile is a commercial theme, this one may be best handled in the Woothemes support forums.

That said, my understanding is that most themes from WooThemes take an “either/or” approach where it comes to the logo. If you use an image, their themes will, by default, turn off the text for “Site Name” and “Site Description.”

To change this behavior for your site, you have a couple of options. Probably the one that will cause the fewest problems would be to create a child theme for Mystile and use a custom header.php file.

In your custom header.php file, you can add a line in the appropriate location which will display the WordPress site description or “tagline” set in the Settings > General tab.

For example a line like this:

<p><?php bloginfo('description'); ?> </p>

would accomplish the job.

Since WooThemes are a “framework,” you can also consider taking advantage of the “hooks” they make available to you. This may be a bit of a shortcut to getting your immediate problem solved. However, if you plan to do much more customization than this, you may find that a child theme is a better idea in the long run.

Thank you very much for the response! I tried the official Woothemes support form last week and haven’t had a single response, so I flocked over here to cry for help.

I will tell you, I’m very VERY new to this and have ZERO experience with creating webpages and using this software. So I understood very little of what you just said.

I was aware of switching between the image and the text headers. I was just hoping there was an easy way to use both.

I will check into the child theme as you said, I’ve read that I should create a child theme if I make any major changes to a theme so my changes don’t get messed up during an update. Thank you.

As far as messing with a custom header file, and using these “hooks” you’ve lost me.

I was hoping there was a quick CSS bit I could throw in the themes custom CSS box and just enable the description to be added.

I will however, do as much reading as I can on child themes, and using the customer header as you’ve said. I will also try to inform myself of these “hooks” you referenced.

Thank you very much for your help!!!!

You’re welcome, dtfkev!

Unfortunately, I may have sent you on a wild goose chase with the “hooks.” Apparently not all of their themes make these readily accessible. The “Canvas” theme does, but it is clearly the most user-configurable theme they produce.

You’re correct about the reasoning behind a child theme. If you were to add something to your current theme’s header.php file (which you could certainly do), you run the risk of losing that change and having to make it again when you update the theme.

Unfortunately, CSS is only going to help you if content is being retrieved by the PHP code in your header file. Most likely, WooThemes is not even retrieving the “tagline” (“description”) if you upload an image to the logo area.

Let us know how this turns out for you!