'Blog Name' question?

Wren · #1 (**permalink**) 10-26-2009, 08:16 AM

One of my personal blogs is on a wordpress platform, what I hope someone can help me with is this...As far as I know, most blog titles...the name of the BLOG that's at the top of the page, for example on this page it's WB Website Babble, well, if you run your mouse across it, you will notice the web address will appear in the lower left hand corner of your screen and if you click the title it will open another tab to the home page of WB Website Babble.

Is it possible to change the destination of that link? On my blog, I would like to send it to another blog that has related information [oh, and both are my blogs]?

I hope this is clear, I'm sure there is probably loads of ways to explain this better...but unfortunately I don't know any of them...

MesmerLab · #2 (**permalink**) 10-31-2009, 02:40 PM

So your goal is to link your website title to a different website? That seems counter-productive. One of my professors in school always said, "red means stop, green means go". Essentially it means that you shouldn't break the rules that everyone assumes.

To achieve your goal, I'd suggest adding another link elsewhere. If you have any more question, feel free to ask.

Wren · #3 (**permalink**) 11-01-2009, 07:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MesmerLab

So your goal is to link your website title to a different website? That seems counter-productive. One of my professors in school always said, "red means stop, green means go". Essentially it means that you shouldn't break the rules that everyone assumes.

To achieve your goal, I'd suggest adding another link elsewhere. If you have any more question, feel free to ask.

Maybe...but my reasons for wanting to do this, makes sense to me. I do have the link that you mentioned in your quote elsewhere on that page already. And I have considered creating a 'tab bar' that would lead to the other site. But essentially what I really want, is what I mentioned in the starter thread...

Maybe, I'll check with my host to see if it is at all possible.

meloncholy · #4 (**permalink**) 11-01-2009, 09:18 AM

Obviously I don't know your specific circumstances either, but my first response was pretty much the same as MesmerLab's. That said, if you do want to go ahead, it's quite simple.

The link in question will almost certainly be in your theme's header file. Open your theme's header.php in a text editor (Notepad is good, Word is not as it will try to add formatting).

There will probably be a line near the top that looks something like this

PHP Code:


			
<a href="<?php bloginfo("url"); ?>/"><?php bloginfo("name"); ?></a>

This uses a couple of calls to the WordPress bloginfo function to return the blog name (for the link text) and URL (for the link destination) and puts it all into a link.

To get the link to point somewhere else, just change the URL bit to your other site.

PHP Code:


			
<a href="http://www.my-other-site.com/"><?php bloginfo("name"); ?></a>

Then upload the new header.php to your template folder and you're done.

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