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Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Saturday, 4 December 2010
So, you installed Elgg and now you want to place an image instead of site name with letters. Well, here is a little guide that will explain how to replace letters for a good looking logo.
Ok, so our site name looks like this:
However, we want to change it with an image or custom logo. To do that we do the following:
1. Choose an image. Any image that you want.
2. Place that image in the folder “_graphics”, which is inside the Elgg folder.
3. Open the file header_contents.php
Location: [mysite/views/default/page_elements/header_contents.php]
4. Look for this line in that file:
<h1><a href=”<?php echo $vars['url']; ?>”><?php echo $vars['config']->sitename; ?></a></h1>
5. Replace it with this one:
<a href=”<?php echo $vars['url']; ?>”><img src=”<?php echo $vars['url'];>_graphics/logo.gif” alt=”<?php echo $vars['config']->sitename; ?>” title=”<?php echo $vars['config']->sitename; ?>” /></a>
(Replace the “logo.gif” in that line with the name of your image or logo)
6. After making those changes, the image is going to be display, instead of the letters.
I hope you find this information helpful.
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Rodolfo Hernandez
I did not have any luck with this one working but then again maybe I did something wrong. I get the following error {Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘>’ in /home/socially/public_html/views/default/page_elements/header_contents.php on line 18}
I’ve tried replacing the text between the H1 tags and I’ve tried replacing everything H1 tags too. I’m sure it’s something too simple that I’m overlooking maybe a dash or slash who knows… I’m trying to make the image a header image so maybe that’s the problem it could be too big. Thought making it the size of the content area but that did not work, so I just copied <a href=””>sitename; ?> back in it’s place and back to square one.
Anyway it’s still nice work and I hope to get my header image up and running, thanks keep up the good work.
@Robert Artchison Jr. Hello there! Here’s an updated post for newer Elgg Versions:
http://blog.arvixe.com/how-to-replace-default-elgg-title-with-an-image/
Rodolfo Hernandez
Arvixe/Elgg Community Liaison