Explaining how to customize the Header for your WordPress site

When a visitor comes to a site, the first part of the site that catches his attention is the header. This makes it important, requiring you to customize and adjust its shape and colors, as well as the internal elements that are present on it, in an interactive way that attracts the visitor. In this article, we will review in a simplified and clear context the easiest and most effective ways to customize the header on your WordPress site. Do not worry if you do not have the slightest experience in programming matters, as the explanation that we will provide to you will enable you to customize the header of your site professionally and in simple steps. In the picture above is the header for the WordPress website in Arabic. As you can see, despite its simple design, it contains most of the navigation options to the site’s subsections and various section articles. It also contains links to social media platforms, in other words, everything a visitor might be looking for is at his fingertips and he can browse your site easily.

The options for customizing and modifying the header shape on the site vary according to the type of template used with WordPress, but through this article we will try to talk about the most common and common parts that can be relied upon to clarify ways to modify the important things in the header. We will apply the explanation to the Twenty Seventeen theme, which comes by default when you install a WordPress website.

We will review several different ways to modify the header, including modification through customizing the template, which is done through the WordPress control panel, some through plugins, and some through modifying the template code.

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Edit the header by customizing the template and adding the logo

Add a background image

Adding a video to the header. Editing the header through additions

Modify Header through source code

Modifying the header by customizing the template The Customize option within WordPress is a useful tool that allows you to make some modifications to the design and shape of the template and its various elements visually and see the modifications directly without the need to modify the source code. When you log into the WordPress control panel

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