how to add a logo to wordpress theme

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As you can can see, I am still in the process of setting up my blog.  Yesterday, I wrote about the basics of setting up a WordPress blog and picking out and setting up a theme.  Yesterday, I added a simple logo to my header.  I know, it is very simple, but much better than what was there before.  Furthermore, it was free, and as you know I am trying to make money with this blog not spend money.  How did you get a free logo?  Well, I asked for it, I went to the freebie section of Digital Point forums and posted a thread and said I started a new blog and was wondering if anyone wanted to create a simple free logo for me.  Sure enough, within 5 minutes I had several responses and a good looking simple logo.  The next step is to get the logo on the blog.  This is a lot easier than you may think.  There are a lot of ways to go about this but if you are like me and want the easiest way, follow these steps.

  • Go into you wp-admin and open your theme editor, then find and open the header.php
  • Find this line of code   ——>    <h1><a href=”<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>/”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a></h1>   <p class=”Desc”><?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?></p>
  • Erase it
  • FTP your new image to the image folder in your template folder
  • Open Style.css
  • Find the code  —–>   Header .LS { position: absolute; top: 30px; left: 30px; background: url(images/LogoIcon.png) no-repeat left top; width: 40px; height: 43px;}
  • Replace “LogoIcon.png” with your logo name and then resize the width and height accordingly.

There you go, pretty easy, right. 

Stay tuned, tomorrow I will write about which Plugins I am using and how to install them.

2 Responses to “how to add a logo to wordpress theme”

  1. Cheat codes says:
    February 16, 2010 at 8:42 am

    I want to create a custom WordPress theme, but I don’t have administrative access to the computer that I’m using, so I can’t install WordPress to test my theme. Is there another easy way to do it?
    .-= Cheat codes´s last blog ..Cheating for fun =-.

  2. Cheat codes says:
    February 1, 2010 at 11:21 am

    I would like to start a free WordPress blog on the WordPress site (not my own domain) but I don’t like the themes they provide. Can I use a downloaded theme on there?
    .-= Cheat codes´s last blog ..Cheating for fun =-.