Title: Get_Header("custom header")
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Get_Header("custom header")

 *  [arimdallas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arimdallas/)
 * (@arimdallas)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_headercustom-header/)
 * Hello World!
 * I am an amatuer web designer trying to make my own WP theme.
 * I want to make a custom header template for my homepage. I have made a header_home.
   php file. In home.php, I have a simple line that says, <?php get_header_home;?
   > I have also tried doing this <?php get_header (“header_home”) ?>. Neither seems
   to call the new header template. Any suggestions on where I;ve misunderstood 
   template files?
 * Email is best for me if possible: _[email moderated – this forum does not provide
   support via email]_

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_headercustom-header/#post-2522716)
 * when unsure how to use WordPress functions, read the Codex:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_header](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_header)
 *  Thread Starter [arimdallas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arimdallas/)
 * (@arimdallas)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_headercustom-header/#post-2522818)
 * Hey Ari, this is yourself responding to your own question. Congratulations on
   finally figured out this Son of a “better left unsaid.” So here is deal boys 
   are girls and geeks of all ages. If you are “dumb” like I am and are trying to
   teach this stuff to yourself and only have this crazy mess of blogs through perhaps
   this will save you the 3 or so hours I have spent going insane.
 * When using the get_header function, wp catergorizes your custom headers in special
   way. Let’s say you want to create a header for your home page, a header for your
   blog page, and a header for your content pages. You could title them respectively:
 * header-homepage.php
 * header-blog.php
 * header-content.php.
 * When you are using the get_header function you would call the your custom headers
   like this:
 * get_header ( “homepage” ), get_header ( “blog” ). get_header ( “content”).
 * IN OTHER WORDS AND WHAT REALLY F-ED ME UP: YOU DON’T PUT THE HEADER PART AGAIN
   INSIDE THE ” “. YOU ONLY PUT THE NAME LIKE, “blog”, “content”, “homepage”, or
   whatever name you want. IN OTHER OTHER WORDS:
 * NAME OF PHP HEADER: header-customheader.php
 * HOW TO WRITE IT:
 * YES: get_header ( “customheader” )
 * NO: get_header ( “header-customheader” )
 * NO: get_header ( “header-customheader.php” )
 * NO: get_header ( “customheader.php” )
 * NO: anything else
 *  [sleeplessindc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sleeplessindc/)
 * (@sleeplessindc)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_headercustom-header/#post-2523034)
 * THANK YOU arimdallas! That is what I needed to know. I’ve been trying all sorts
   of things because the Codex doesn’t give any useful examples as to how to really
   specify the alternate header.
 * It would be good if the Codex examples were actual how-to-code-it examples.

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 * [get_header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/get_header/)
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 * [templates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/templates/)

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