Unable to change header

  • Hi there,

    I’ve recently been asked to edit the image of a website I’m helping with. I have come into the project completely ‘new’, with the previous person operating the website having left. I have been unable to find how I can change the current header. Although WordPress told me I had ‘successfully’ changed the header after uploading the new one through appearance>header, nothing changed. Also, in the css file, it alludes to a ‘logo.png’ file, under images, yet I can see no such file in the media library. How might this header have been set previously so that I could change it? Any help is greatly appreciated.

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  • hey there,

    you will probably find logo image under /images/logo.png. there should be a /images directory under your theme folder.
    if you want to change the image, maybe directly change path to new image instead of replacing the image.

    header should be changed from header.php file in your theme directory.

    you can edit this file from wordpress theme-editor by going to Appearance>Editor and switching to header.php on the right sidebar.

    make changes to the file only if you know what you are doing, in anyways take backup of all the code before making any changes.

    try this:

    1. Use FTP to access your site
      e.g. https://filezilla-project.org/download.php
      No doubt your webhost has emailed the FTP-password and settings etc
    2. FTP: Search and locate the headerimage [it may be in ‘obscure places ;)’
    3. FTP:rename the image file e.g. ‘logo_old.png’
    4. make sure the new logo.png has the exact same dimensions as the old one ??
    5. FTP:upload the new ‘logo.png’ in [the same] place
    6. browser: press <CTRL-F5> to refresh the browser-cache
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