Title: Messing with/resizing headers
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# Messing with/resizing headers
* Resolved [zotmaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zotmaster/)
* (@zotmaster)
* [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/messing-withresizing-headers/)
* Hi everyone. I’m still pretty new at this and my PHP knowledge is pretty much
non-existent, so I’d like to see if anyone can help me.
* I’m using the inferno-mf 1.2 theme for my site ([http://www.houseofzot.com](http://www.houseofzot.com))
and I enjoy it a lot, but I don’t like the plain text header. I’ve downloaded
a Dynamic Header plugin and I’ve sort of managed to figure out how to make it
work to put my images in the header in lieu of plain text.
* However, I’m having two problems: first, I don’t know what exactly are the dimensions
of the main text box in the theme. I would like to create images that are that
same width, but I don’t know how to figure out exactly what that width is. Second,
I’d like to use images that are larger than the small rectangular space that
is the current header. Is it possible to tinker with the code to make, say, the
vertical allowance of that header larger, so I can put a larger image in it?
* Here is the header code for the theme, it if helps:
* ```
>
<?php wp_title('«', true, 'right'); ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
```
* Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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* [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
* (@esmi)
* [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/messing-withresizing-headers/#post-1066924)
* A link to your site would be more helpful…
* Thread Starter [zotmaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zotmaster/)
* (@zotmaster)
* [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/messing-withresizing-headers/#post-1066934)
* I did post my site in that post, I just forgot to make it a hyperlink. Sorry.
* [http://www.houseofzot.com](http://www.houseofzot.com)
* [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
* (@esmi)
* [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/messing-withresizing-headers/#post-1066936)
* I completely missed the url. My apologies.
* The main header area is 780px wide and doesn’t currently have a defined width.
I estimate that you could use a 100px high image without impacting on the overall
page if you also made a few CSS changes. You’d need to edit style.css (line 324)
and change:
* ```
#headerimg {
margin:10px 0 40px;
width:780px;
}
```
* to
* ```
#headerimg {
width:805px;
height:100px;
margin:0 0 0 15px;
}
```
* If you want to use a larger image, it will take a fair bit more editing.
* Thread Starter [zotmaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zotmaster/)
* (@zotmaster)
* [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/messing-withresizing-headers/#post-1066938)
* I would like to use a larger image: the ones I am presently tinkering with are
200 pixels high.
* I’m assuming that would affect the overall page as you said it would require
a fair bit more editing.
* Thread Starter [zotmaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zotmaster/)
* (@zotmaster)
* [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/messing-withresizing-headers/#post-1066981)
* I was tinkering with the style.css code. I tried changing the height dimensions
in your listed code but it didn’t affect anything. The only other place I saw
header code:
* ```
/* Begin Headers */
#header {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0;
}
```
* I added a height dimension here but that affects the height of the main body,
where my posts are. I want to increase the allowable height of the header, where
my “House of Zot” logo is, so I can instead change it to an image (or a set of
images).
* Again, my knowledge in this area is sorely lacking, but at least in my style.
css, I don’t know what other code I would add to change the dimensions of that
header.
* [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
* (@esmi)
* [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/messing-withresizing-headers/#post-1067105)
* If you want to use a 200px high image, the theme will need a fair bit of editing.
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