Genesis Child Theme's header.php not overwriting

Question

I have Genesis and a Genesis Theme installed. Now I would like to make some customization's so I have created a child-theme and activated it. I have made CSS changes and everything works. Now I would like to overwrite the header.php file from the the Genesis theme so I have copied the header.php file to my child-theme in hopes I would be able to overwrite the parent themes header.php. But any change I make to my child-theme's header.php file does not work. Any idea's how I can overwrite the parent's header.php file?

You copied the `header.php` file in the root of your Genesis folder to the root of your child theme folder? That should overwrite it. I ran a test and it did. — jer0dh, Feb 18 '17 at 13:41
I think I miss understood how Genesis works. I have Genesis installed and a genesis theme installed. What I did was make an additional child-theme for the genesis theme so I have 3 themes, but it looks like this is wrong? I should just have 2 theme files correct? — Hubvill, Feb 18 '17 at 14:42
@Hubvill you said you have genesis and genesis theme, then you created own child theme also.. what you mean by Genesis theme? as please know , genesis is framework, then every other theme you install is Child theme.. and there are no support for grandchild themes.. i.e. you have just genesis+your activated child theme... so make sure you have got it right. — Muhammad Asadullah, Feb 19 '17 at 08:43
Yes I didn't understand correctly how Genesis works and made a grand-child theme on accident. Thanks for clearing that up. — Hubvill, Feb 20 '17 at 01:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 14 '17 at 07:32

Grab the code from header.php inside genesis > lib > structure > header.php near line 623 and modify it in your child themes functions.php file like this:

remove_action('genesis_header','genesis_do_header');

add_action('genesis_header','genesis_custom_header');
function genesis_custom_header() {

global $wp_registered_sidebars;

    genesis_markup( array(
        'open'    => '<div %s>',
        'context' => 'title-area',
    ) );

        do_action( 'genesis_site_title' );
        do_action( 'genesis_site_description' );

    genesis_markup( array(
        'close'    => '</div>',
        'context' => 'title-area',
    ) );

    if ( ( isset( $wp_registered_sidebars['header-right'] ) && is_active_sidebar( 'header-right' ) ) || has_action( 'genesis_header_right' ) ) {

        genesis_markup( array(
            'open'    => '<div %s>' . genesis_sidebar_title( 'header-right' ),
            'context' => 'header-widget-area',
        ) );

            do_action( 'genesis_header_right' );
            add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_args', 'genesis_header_menu_args' );
            add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu', 'genesis_header_menu_wrap' );
            dynamic_sidebar( 'header-right' );
            remove_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_args', 'genesis_header_menu_args' );
            remove_filter( 'wp_nav_menu', 'genesis_header_menu_wrap' );

        genesis_markup( array(
            'close'   => '</div>',
            'context' => 'header-widget-area',
        ) );

    }

}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 20 '19 at 12:45

normally header of genesis theme have this code

/**
 * Fires immediately after the site container opening markup, before `genesis_header` action hook.
 *
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
do_action( 'genesis_before_header' );

/**
 * Fires to display the main header content.
 *
 * @since 1.0.2
 */
do_action( 'genesis_header' );

/**
 * Fires immediately after the `genesis_header` action hook, before the site inner opening markup.
 *
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
do_action( 'genesis_after_header' );

You have to change it like this.

/**
 * Fires immediately after the site container opening markup, before `genesis_header` action hook.
 *
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
do_action( 'genesis_before_header' );

/**
 * Fires to display the main header content.
 *
 * @since 1.0.2
 */
do_action( 'my_custom_header' );

/**
 * Fires immediately after the `genesis_header` action hook, before the site inner opening markup.
 *
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
do_action( 'genesis_after_header' );

Now in function.php or in header.php add your custom header like this.

add_action( 'my_custom_header', 'my_custom_header');
function my_custom_header() { ?> <header> Your header code </header><?php } ?>

Genesis Child Theme's header.php not overwriting

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