A lot of people have already asked for help with their WordPress logos. The thing is it’s not that they want me to create a logo for them, it’s that they do not know how to change the code in their WordPress template to show their logo instead of the default.
I have decided to just make a blog post to show how easy it is to do this. So first you’ll want to click on the tab design and then go to theme editor. On the right sidebar click on the Header (header.php) link.
Find the code:
<a href=”<?php echo get_settings(’home’); ?>/”><?php bloginfo(’name’); ?></a>
Then change it to:
<a href=”<?php echo get_settings(’home’); ?>/”> put the link to your logo here </a>
You can either upload your logo to your server or you can upload it to web sites like photobucket and flickr. They will then give you a link to your photo that you can copy and paste into the put the link to your logo here.
If that is not simple enough that I do not know what to tell you. If you are still having problems though feel free to contact me and I will help out.
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Thanks for the tip! I may try it later today. I found several themes that I liked, but I just didn’t like the stock logo photo that went with them. I suppose if I mess it up. I can always just reset my theme.
Be aware that it is against the Flickr terms of service to link to an image hosted on flickr and not have it backlink back to the original image. In the example you posted, the image would be linking to the blogger’s home page, and not to the page that the image resides on on Flickr.
The exact text of the rule is: “Do link back to Flickr when you post your Flickr content elsewhere.
The Flickr service makes it possible to post content hosted on Flickr to outside web sites. However, pages on other web sites that display content hosted on flickr.com must provide a link from each photo or video back to its page on Flickr.”
Thanks for reminding everyone.
Great tutorial! This is definitely something every blogger should read! Having your own logo instead of just deafult text and font for a blog name makes you look much more professional and polished and it’s easy to implement!
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I would also have trouble with this as I am not very code savy. I am glad that you told us all how to do this because soon I am going to get my own logo (within the next 3 months) and I will need to know how to do this. A logo can be so important to brand yourself and it is also really cheap to get done considering how muhc exposure it can get you. Thanks for the post franklin
There are several Wordpress plugins available that will automatically send a ‘tweet’ to your twitter when you publish a post. At the very least this is the only thing you could use twitter for and best of all, you would never have to actually touch it. At least it gives people another way to be informed when there is a new post – and hence another way to get back to your blog.
Well, the above comment was supposed to go in the post about Twitter being dead. Sorry about that. I am sure there are a lot of new (or not!) Wordpress bloggers that do not know hardly any php or HTML. I haven’t really tried looking, but it would be great if there was some central resource of tutorials like this for bloggers in that position.
This is awesome, this will make my life a lie easier when I try to add a actual picture logo. I will not have to go on Google and search how to do this. Now I just need to find someone that will be able to help me with a logo design.
This is great information! I know how tricky it can be sometimes to get that perfect logo and the correct size as well. Also, don’t forget to make your titles SEO friendly, and use keywords as well. That goes for all your pictures you should name them as keywords your trying to target!
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Adding a photo or logo to your header is definitely a great way of personalizing your blog. Using themes in their default state works, but I love to be able to go to a blog and see that it is different and belongs to an individual. Great tip!
Great tip Franklin, Thanks for sharing this.