Title: Child theme – Header
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Child theme – Header

 *  [SoniaTBB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soniatbb/)
 * (@soniatbb)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-header/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m using twentyeleven and I would like to remove the kind of search bar there
   is by default on the very top of a wordpress website. I’d like to remove it from
   my child theme.
 * So far, i’ve not created a child header.php
    What i don’t understand is : if 
   you want to add something to your header, you create a child header.php, you 
   insert your thing and then the rest will be loaded with the parent header.php
   BUT if i want to REMOVE something that is on the parent header.php, how do i 
   have to do ?
 * Should i just make a full copy of the parent header.php and put it in the child
   theme folder ?
 * Thanks for your help
 * ps : i know how to remove it on the parent theme, i just don’t know how to deal
   with this and the child theme

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-header/#post-3400829)
 * The child theme uses the entire header.php that is in the child theme (if one)–
   so you’d just make the change there. It won’t load part of the header.php from
   the parent.
 *  [Hennessey Digital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpthemesnz/)
 * (@wpthemesnz)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-header/#post-3400830)
 * Hi Sonia,
 * Think of it like this: generally, any template file you put on the child theme
   will override the template file on the parent theme.
 * If you only want to override the `header.php` file, then just have that file 
   on your child theme folder, and the rest of the template files will be taken 
   from the parent theme.
 * So, if you want to “remove” or “add” something then that is a modification which
   means you will want to override the file from the parent theme.
 * So yes, just make a full copy of the parent `header.php` file and put it in the
   child theme folder and remove the search bar from that new file. WP will then**
   use** the file in the child theme instead of the file from the parent theme.
 *  Thread Starter [SoniaTBB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soniatbb/)
 * (@soniatbb)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-header/#post-3400836)
 * Thanks for your answer.
    So, the only thing i have to do (as i have no child-
   header so far), is to copy the original one to the child-folder and to modify
   it ?
 *  [Konstantinos Kouratoras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kouratoras/)
 * (@kouratoras)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-header/#post-3400841)
 * Exactly, copy header file to child-folder and modify the way you want.
 *  Thread Starter [SoniaTBB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soniatbb/)
 * (@soniatbb)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-header/#post-3400851)
 * Thanks a lot to both of you 🙂
 * One last thing i want to be sure of : about style.css, i just have to create 
   a child file, with the following code :
 * /*
    Theme Name: Twenty ElevenChild Template: twentyeleven */ [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/)
   url(“../twentyeleven/rtl.css”);
 * Then the only things i need to add are the modifications i want. Right ? I don’t
   need to copy the whole file
 * Thanks again
 *  Thread Starter [SoniaTBB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soniatbb/)
 * (@soniatbb)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-header/#post-3400855)
 * Speaking of the header but it doesn’t have anything to do with child theme.
    
   Look at my website please : [http://www.soniarochel.com](http://www.soniarochel.com)
   How can i modify the margin between the title of my website and the picture of
   the header ?
 * Thanks
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-header/#post-3400882)
 * Your child theme is not active – once you set it up, you have to switch to it—
   like switching to any other different theme.
 *  Thread Starter [SoniaTBB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soniatbb/)
 * (@soniatbb)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-header/#post-3400886)
 * I know it is not active.
    I think you don’t understand my question. Forget the
   parent or child theme. I want to know how to reduce the margin between the title
   and the picture of the header
 * Thanks
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-header/#post-3400890)
 * That space is created by the “site description” (tagline) – leaving it blank 
   in your settings doesn’t get rid of it on the site. So try this:
 *     ```
       #site-description {
          display: none;
       }
       ```
   

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