Interactive Tagline

[Lauren Moore]

Hi There,
Yet another post from us! Our site is for a shelter for abused women- and we need the tagline to be a “quick escape” button that someone needing to quickly escape the website can click to leave. Is there a way to make the tagline interactive and link it to, say, Google?

[Bill Robbins]

Laureen,

Questions are always welcome. You can make the tagline a link with a bit of editing. Here’s what to do:

1. Go to the Appearance section in your WordPress control panel and select Edit.
2. From the list of files on your right, choose header.php and find this:

   
   		<?php if(of_get_option('tagline_include') == 'yes') { 
   			
   		if (is_front_page()) {
   				echo '<div id="tagline"><h2>'.get_bloginfo('description').'</h2></div>';
   			} else {
   				echo '<div id="tagline"><p>'.get_bloginfo('description').'</p></div>';
   			}
   		
   		} ?>
   

3. Replace that with this:

4. Save your changes.

That should add a link in for your tagline to Google. If you’d like to change the link, just replace http://google.com with the URL you’d like to send your visitors too.

If you have any questions or trouble, let me know,
Bill

[Lauren Moore]

Hi there, I attempted to switch the code, and it deleted the tag line. I tried to put the original code back in and now the tagline has still disappeared but the formatting for the whole website is skewed!

[Bill Robbins]

Laureen,

I’d be glad to take a look for you. What was the URL to your site again?

Thanks,
Bill

[Lauren Moore]

Thanks! its
http://wordpress.newbeginningsnh.org

[Bill Robbins]

Perfect. Let’s do this. Go to the theme editor again and select the header.php file. Replace everything there with this:

and save your changes. It looks like the opening of the header container (it’s called a “div” may have been removed causing the layout to go all over the place).

If you have any trouble, let me know,
Bill

[Lauren Moore]

Great!!! The layout is back to normal, but the tagline is still missing, let alone inactive! I don’t know what I did to make it disappear!
Thanks for all of your help.

[Bill Robbins]

Lauren,

That’s my bad. I updated the code above. Give replacing it one more try and see if it won’t be visible this time.

Let me know if that doesn’t do the trick.

Bill

[Lauren Moore]

Perfect!!! Thank you times infinity!

[Bill Robbins]

Anytime Lauren. Have a great week!

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