Forefront Theme Update Question Regarding Header

[Kenneth]

I am using the Forefront theme and up until now had not been using the Simple CSS plugin. Upon testing the plugin today I am able to save my Stylesheet.css changes in it with no problem, however the same can not be said for my header.

I have been using a header.php file, of which the original Forefront theme does not contain. My question is, in using a header.php file when updates to the Forefront theme come out will it wipe out my header.php? If so then can you offer any help in how I should save that code into the CSS plugin? I tried several ways to get the header info into CSS but it never saves it quite right.

Thanks for your time.

[Tom]

Hi there,

That’s correct, updating the theme will remove your header.php file.

It depends on what you’re doing in that file? There might be a way to achieve it without having that file in there.

Otherwise, just make a backup of it and re-upload it after updating.

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[Kenneth]

It’s basically layout items for the header. Since that is the way I was doing it (header.php) under a former theme I’m not sure how to get the same results in ForeFront without it.

[Tom]

Can you show me your header.php file? Preferably in a pastebin? http://pastebin.com/

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[Kenneth]

Are you able to see it here http://pastebin.com/YCu05efR

[Tom]

From what I can see, you can do this instead of adding the header.php file:

add_action( 'generate_after_header_content','kenneth_add_weather' );
function kenneth_add_weather()
{
    ?>
    <div id="current-weather">
        <iframe src="http://builder.zoomradar.net/weather_builder/widget.page.php?s=160x160&z=28607&i=1&c=1" width="160" height="160" style="border:0" frameBorder="0"></iframe>
    </div>
    <form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/">
        <div>
            <input type="text" size="10" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>" name="s" id="s" />
            <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" class="btn" />
        </div>
    </form>
    <?php
}

add_action( 'generate_inside_container','kenneth_add_ticker' );
function kenneth_add_ticker()
{
    if(function_exists('ditty_news_ticker')){ditty_news_ticker(306350);}
}

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Hooks are awesome 🙂

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