Title: Changing Header in Default Theme
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Changing Header in Default Theme

 *  [alan52](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alan52/)
 * (@alan52)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-header-in-default-theme/)
 * I’ve looked through many support items and I’m still lost.
    I want to change 
   the header on the Default theme to one of my own creation, which is now in the
   images folder in Default/themes.
 * According to instructions, I must change the header.php
    But what is it I exactly
   need to change? Header.php seems to have no reference to kubrickheader.jpg Here
   is my header.php:
 * <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “[http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”&gt](http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”&gt);
   
   <html xmlns=”[http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&#8221](http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&#8221);
   <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
 * <head profile=”[http://gmpg.org/xfn/11″&gt](http://gmpg.org/xfn/11″&gt);
    <meta
   http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”<?php bloginfo(‘html_type’); ?>; charset=<?
   php bloginfo(‘charset’); ?>” />
 * <title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive
   <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
 * <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress <?php bloginfo(‘version’); ?>” /> <!–
   leave this for stats –>
 * <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?>” type=”text/
   css” media=”screen” />
    <link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title
   =”<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> RSS Feed” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” /
   > <link rel=”pingback” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’); ?>” />
 * <style type=”text/css” media=”screen”>
 * <?php
    // Checks to see whether it needs a sidebar or not if ( !$withcomments&&!
   is_single() ) { ?> #page { background: url(“<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’);?
   >/images/kubrickbg-<?php bloginfo(‘text_direction’); ?>.jpg”) repeat-y top; border:
   none; } <?php } else { // No sidebar ?> #page { background: url(“<?php bloginfo(‘
   stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/kubrickbgwide.jpg”) repeat-y top; border: none;}
   <?php } ?>
 * </style>
 * <?php wp_head(); ?>
    </head> <body> <div id=”page”>
 * <div id=”header”>
    <div id=”headerimg”> <h1>/”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></h1
   > <div class=”description”><?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?></div> </div> </div
   > <hr />
 * Please help!

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-header-in-default-theme/#post-643309)
 * Using [WinGrep](http://www.wingrep.com/) found reference to kubrickheader.jpg
   in wp-content/themes/default/functions.php, wp-content/themes/default/style.css,
   and wp-content/themes/default/images/header-img.php
 *  Thread Starter [alan52](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alan52/)
 * (@alan52)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-header-in-default-theme/#post-643313)
 * So does that mean I must change all references to kubrickheader.jpg in all 3 
   of the above to my new header art file?
 *  [ekusteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ekusteve/)
 * (@ekusteve)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-header-in-default-theme/#post-643314)
 * The simplest way would be to change the name of your custome header image to 
   kubrickheader.jpg and overwrite the existing jpg in the images folder…then you
   wouldn’t need to change any references.
 * Steve
 *  Thread Starter [alan52](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alan52/)
 * (@alan52)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-header-in-default-theme/#post-643319)
 * that doesn’t seem to work either.
 *  Thread Starter [alan52](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alan52/)
 * (@alan52)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-header-in-default-theme/#post-643598)
 * OK, I’m inching along to a solution on changing the Default, blue-blob header-
   But I’m not there yet.
 * So far I’ve added a new jpeg as a test header and named it kubricikheader.jpg
   in /wp-content/themes/default/images
 * You can see it at [http://www.jerusalemrepublic.net](http://www.jerusalemrepublic.net)
   and my latest post shows what it is.
 * It’s there but behind the blob. How do I get rid of that blob? I’ve also tried
   removing the funtions.php from /default and also eliminating all text in the 
   php. It seems this function is used to recolor the header, so I figured that 
   without it maybe I’d pass Go. But that wasn’t the case. When I moved it, or its
   text, I got the full size blob back in the original color.
 * Any thoughts on where to go from here?
 *  [verabass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verabass/)
 * (@verabass)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-header-in-default-theme/#post-643612)
 * The ‘blob’ is in 2 places in the default theme.
 * First it is between the style tags, woven into a php call for the stylesheet 
   and text direction, about halfway into your header file. There are 2 Kubrick 
   images there (one after the other). Take out the ones you don’t want.
 * (note: after removing those kubrick images from my header file, the theme wouldn’t
   validate until I took the entire style section out …those calls seem to be there
   for the images or something. The helpful people here suggested the section removal
   and it worked.)
 * The other place where your images (instead of Kubrick’s) go is into the first
   portion of the style.css file. My own header is entered under #header { background
   url
    (My background is in the Body section) You can also see from the default
   stylesheet the format for entering the url.
 * Vera

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