Site Title interfering with Image Logo

@Andykev, thank you for replying but the information at that link does not apply to what I’m trying to do.

I don’t want to remove Post/Page titles, I do want them displayed in their proper place at the top of the browser bar.

What Genesis has is a setting that lets you append the Site Title to the beginning or end of the Page title, for SEO/branding purposes, this is a good thing. Most SEO plugins have the same setting.

When not using the Epik Theme, if one elects to use an image logo in place of the Site Title, it works great. You can still have your Site Title entered so it can be used to append to your Page Title at the top of the browser bar.

However, when using the Epik Theme, one cannot have both – if you elect to use an Image Logo, the Site Title is also displayed (over top of the logo) – that looks awful…..you can get rid of it only be erasing the Site Title in the Settings. Fine. Logo looks good, but now Genesis cannot append it to the Page Title, so no branding.

SO I still need an answer – how do I modified the Epik functions so that my Image logo displays but I can still have and use my Site Title for SEO purposes?

@scooby, thank you, but there is not a place to enter the site title in the Genesis Setttings, either the SEO Settings or the Theme Settings, and yes I do have the most current version of Genesis. 🙂

You may be thinking of the Genesis SEO Setting for the *Home Page* Title, which is not carried through to other pages…..

The only Genesis Settings related to (appending the) Site Title (to page titles) (in SEO Settings) are a checkbox (to add it), another checkbox to indicate right or left side, and text field to enter the separator (in which you put in what you want to separate your Page Title from your Site Title, such as a hyphen, colon, pipe, etc.) I have mine set to a pipe, so it should look like “Page Title | Site Title”.

The only place to actually *enter* a Site Title is under the WP General Settings, or the Epik Theme Customization, which is just basically an alias for the WP General Settings……whatever gets entered or erased there modifies the WP General Settings.

STILL need help……this just should not be so difficult…..Epik is a Genesis Theme, it should respect the Genesis Setting to use an image logo in place of the Site Title in the Header area, but it seems to disregard that entirely.

Thanks for the tip @kronos, I’ll take a look at that….and I’ll post back if that fixes the problem or not. 🙂

UPDATE:

Okay I downloaded the latest version of Epik and went through the functions line by line, and could not find anything different between the new version and the old one I’m using that is related to the site title or logo, so I installed the new version on a sandbox site, and the problem persists……BUT that was hard to spot because the default Epik Theme places my logo in the center (not where we want it, we have it on the left upper corner), and the Site Title cannot be read because it’s the same color as the background of the header…..when I moved my logo to the left (in the stylesheet) then the Site Title could be seen over top of it again.

SO that got me thinking, and I realized (DOH!) that this was a CSS problem all along……so in my version I just found the styles for .site-title and replaced them with display:none; and voila! That fixed my problem. I can have my logo and Site Title (for SEO purposes) and not have the dang site title displayed over top of my logo.

Hi @Wes – thanks for posting…..your code snippet is what I’ve always had in the functions except for the last two lines, but I did add those to my functions.php file and it didn’t help – the site title still appeared over top of my logo.

I did resolve this by just modifying the styles for .site-title to display:none;

Hi Wes,

I came back here to update my post and just saw your reply…….here’s what I’ve learned and what I’ve done.

As you have noted, the Genesis option to use an image logo instead of text disappears when the Child Theme (in this case Epik) has that code:

//* Add support for custom header
add_theme_support( 'custom-header', array(
	'width'           => 360,
	'height'          => 164,
	'header-selector' => '.site-title a',
	'header-text'     => false,
) );

Removing (or commenting out) that code makes the Genesis option available again.

If I *don’t* use the Genesis option, then the logo is not clickable (not linked to our home page)….I discovered that today when my boss said “hey why is our logo not linked to our home page”…..If one does not make the logo linked (as most site visitors *expect* these days because that is the behavior on *most* websites) then we have to add a Home Page item to our menu – not what we want to do…..

SO I had to comment out your code, choose the Genesis image logo option, and modify the CSS that deals with the site-title to make the color ‘transparent’…..if I removed the CSS or made it set to display:none, then there is no linking either because technically that section (and it’s a tag) do not show on the page.

SO when you are working on your new Theme you might put more thought into this issue…..most web developers will definitely want their logo linked, generally to their home page. And if a logo image is used, no one will want the text to show over top of it…..

I’m learning as I’m going and I’m not a coder, so I wish I could offer suggestions but I am certain you know way more than I do anyway…….just wanted to make you aware of what I’ve learned in case you find it helpful.

Once again, my problem IS resolved, it’s just rather klugey to have to monkey around with commenting out functions and changing styles…..I’m fine with it, but a lot of WP users may not be, so presenting options in the Customize panel will be preferable for most users.