February 14th in Wordpress by pbu .

How to insert logo in your wordpress blog?

Quite often you might want to insert your custom logo to your wordpress blog. By default wordpress shows the blog name in place of logo in your blog.

here is how to do it..

1. Go to theme folder /wordpress/wp-content/themes/YourTheme/
2. Upload your logo inside images folder of your current wordpress theme.
2. Download header.php using FTP and edit it.

Look for this this line on top of the page

<h1><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>

and replace it with

<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/logo.png">

Note: If you have wordpress theme with background, you might want to save your logo with transparancy in PNG format, as otherwise the logo will cast out a shadow background and it wont look good. You will need to use wp-pngfix plugin to fix transparancy issues with IE and older browsers

4 Comments

MClogoID
February 18, 2009

wow, thanks a lot. i am excited to put logo on my blog.. your post is really helpful. Nice folk.
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Amy
August 10, 2009

I tried this and I got a ? in a box where my logo should be. I saved it as logo.png. Any suggestions? I’m desperate to figure out how to get my logo on my site. thanks.
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kesok
January 17, 2010

Thanks mate…
i did this actually, and worked
<a href="/”><img src="/images/logo.png”>
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pbu
January 18, 2010

That / will only work if you upload on the main wordpress path under images folder. If you upload your logo under template > images filder, you will need to get the path from php.
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