wordpress theme with customisable header?

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I am looking to change my wordpress theme to something a bit more 'weddingy', or girly if you prefer.

There are plenty about that fit the bill, however there are none that I have found so far that allow a customised header.

The wordpress theme is only for the blog portion of my site, the main bulk of my site is not wordpress. So I need to be able to drop dome html into the wordpress theme to add the same manu bar as per the rest of my site so that people can navigate from the blog back to the website.

I was using WeaverII which allowed this, but the theme is a bit stark and I am looking for a softer appearence.

Any suggestions?


I guess if all else fails, I can use one of the themes I have already found, and change the 'blog' link on the manu on all my website pages to open in a new window. ButI would like to do it properly if possible.
 
Do you have full ftp access to the site? YOu can get in and change the files it looks at for headers and the like directly then.

For example, I built this website http://www.joycebutlerschoolofdance.co.uk/ off the traveltime theme from here http://themepix.com/wordpress-themes/traveltime/

All off the layout, headers images and colours were changed by swapping out the background images for my versions, and hacking around with the css files, including the ones that the wordpress interface doesn't let you access, all via FTP.
 
I don't really feel confident in editing the code of the theme itself. More for someone like me who doesn't know what they are doing to break!

The more I think about it, the more I am warming to an outbound link for the blog. Having it open in a new tab kind of gives justification to it's appearence being different to the rest of the site.

Although on hosted on the same domain as the main site, would an outbound link to the blog have any negative effects on seo?
 
HA! I've just read your name properly, I'm abbotsmike over on TA.

I can't see that it would, but SEO isn't really my thing. One downside is that a lot of rankings now are based on regular content updates. This means that your main site would not look like it was having major changes, but the blog site would. A quick google indicated that it could be possible to integrate the wordpress blog into your website however, rather than pasting your website over the top of the wordpress blog, if that makes sense?
 
bass_junkie83 said:
I am looking to change my wordpress theme to something a bit more 'weddingy', or girly if you prefer.

There are plenty about that fit the bill, however there are none that I have found so far that allow a customised header.

The wordpress theme is only for the blog portion of my site, the main bulk of my site is not wordpress. So I need to be able to drop dome html into the wordpress theme to add the same manu bar as per the rest of my site so that people can navigate from the blog back to the website.

I was using WeaverII which allowed this, but the theme is a bit stark and I am looking for a softer appearence.

Any suggestions?


I guess if all else fails, I can use one of the themes I have already found, and change the 'blog' link on the manu on all my website pages to open in a new window. ButI would like to do it properly if possible.
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I would make live easier for yourself...why not have your whole site in wordpress....there does not seem to be anything there which isn't perfectly suited to it. That way you've got a single content management system, and a consistent customer experience....Invest in a premium theme, or better a bespoke one to fit your own brand and you're off...
 
I paid a fair old amount to have my website built, I would feel sick moving it all over to wordpress now.
Besides, now that I have leanrt quite a few of the basics, I much prefer editing and maintaining the website via Cpanel. Wordpress is fine for putting up posts, but I find I just don't really get on with it for much else.

I have put something together now that I am pretty happy with. I decided that if I am going for a different look on the blog, there is no real need to keep the exact same header from my website. Instead the blog and website have a clear difference, and I have created a simple menu on the blog to link to the various categories that I have and also link back to my website.

What do you think?

http://www.photographerinessex.com/blog/
 
Looks smart to me. On the technical side, it doesn't open in a new tab, is that intentional?
Your 'share' icons at the bottom of the page are laid out very neatly.
I'm never sure I like having the 'meta' section showing.
To me, the 'menu' section at the bottom looks too big, can you compress that so it only shows the top level maybe?
Oh, and your pages don't have a title (as in the tab title)
 
Thanks Mike.
Now that I have a menu sorted with links back to the site, I decided there was probably no benefit to it opening in a new tab.
The meta fiels is a bit annoying, but it is the only wat to get a log in button sa that I can access the admin back end of the blog unfortunately.
Don'tthink I can make the bottom menu collapsable, but I can lose it all together. Probably a bit unnecessary with it duplicated at the bottom of the page anyway.

The tab title has got me stumped. I can't find where the settings are for that! Fot all the individual posts, it pulls out the title and uses that automatically. But it doesn't seem to do anything for the home page and I can't see why.
 
I just bookmark the login pages!

For the title - Appearance - Customize - Site Title & Tagline - Site Title.
 
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