Title: Styling Different Headers Using Different Classes – via PHP Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Styling Different Headers Using Different Classes – via PHP * Resolved [EMG](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emg/) * (@emg) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-different-headers-using-different-classes-via-php-echos/) * My Topic Title stinks, but I couldn’t think of any other way to describe what I’m trying to do – whooops. * So I’m using something like this: * ```

> ``` * to add classes to my `#header` to help me style a different header for certain different SINGLE posts, post groupings (specific categories or pages), etc. * **What I Am Trying To Do (Recap):** I would like to be able to specify different header specifications via CSS for individual posts (via tags probably), different pages, etc. I would also like for my home/main/most recent listing of posts to have a static header that will never change regardless of the tags the recent posts may have. * The example I gave works just splendidly and if the single post in question is displaying the ‘books’ tag, the header will be styled for the books class, but I would like to do more. * I would like to be able to specify classes for not just the ‘books’ tag but also for a ‘movies’ tag and whatever other non-overlapping tag (meaning, a post tagged with ‘books’ will never be tagged with ‘movies’) I might have that I might have a custom header image for. * ALSO, I would like my recent posts page’s header to remain as is and to not change based on my list of collective recent posts and their tags. * Is there any way to do this using the code that I have started? * I know that there are rotating header images plugins available, but my header stylization – image included – are all in my CSS stylesheet (background image) and I would like to keep it this way. The plugins I have seen have all used ` ` to embed the header image (or media). * I also know that I could create a bunch of custom templates and in each template, call a different header template with a different stylesheet, but… that just seems even more complicated and unnecessary than what I am already doing. * Or is it? * I’m no PHP expert of any sort and I need some help and would be really grateful if someone could offer it. * Please and thank you! * **EDIT:** I have discovered that: * ```

> ``` * will style ONLY posts that are tagged with ‘books’ and NOT my main/home page, so at least -that- works to ensure my home page remains styled as is. * But I would still like to style more than one tag in one function if possible. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * Thread Starter [EMG](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emg/) * (@emg) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-different-headers-using-different-classes-via-php-echos/#post-1627011) * I can’t edit the original post anymore otherwise I would, but I changed the location of the PHP function to be in the `` tag instead so I can style other parts if needed and not just the header. Not sure if this information was/is pertinent so I decided to add it anyways just in case. * Still lost on the inclusion of the other things I am trying to do, though. * [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) * (@alchymyth) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-different-headers-using-different-classes-via-php-echos/#post-1627079) * have you tried `body_class()` ? * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/body_class](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/body_class) * otherwise you could try and use if elseif statements; for instance: * ```

> ``` * php if/elseif [http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_if_else.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_if_else.asp) * Thread Starter [EMG](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emg/) * (@emg) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-different-headers-using-different-classes-via-php-echos/#post-1627119) * Hi there! 🙂 * Thanks for the response; I will definitely look into using the`body_class()` and thank you for the example and the links! * I will report back once I implement things. * Thread Starter [EMG](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emg/) * (@emg) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-different-headers-using-different-classes-via-php-echos/#post-1627156) * Reporting back to say that after some wrangling, I decided to utilize a function that would call up a different stylesheet per tag/specification. * The method I mentioned previously which **alchymyth** expounded on (adding classes to the `body` tag) does work, but it’s long and considering my list of tags, it’s also unwieldy. In an effort to clean up my code, I went the way of a function instead which shoves all the PHP stuff into the `functions.php` file. * The `body_class()` works also in auto-classing the different posts and pages, but with limitations if the `body_class()` tag is used as-is and without modifications. * If I were a better at piecing together PHP I might have tackled the `body_class()` method of adding additional styling classes, but I’m not and utilizing a function allows me the freedom to separate each tag’s/specification’s into its own separate child and grandchild stylesheet which would let me re-style the entire theme and not just the `header` if I so desired and independent of additional classes which eliminates potential cascading styling issues. * Thanks to **alchymyth** for all the pointers; it really helped to set me in the right direction! 🙂 Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Styling Different Headers Using Different Classes – via PHP’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [custom headers](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-headers/) * 4 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [EMG](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emg/) * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-different-headers-using-different-classes-via-php-echos/#post-1627156) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics