Logo sizing in Sela theme

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  wisteriawalk · Member · Jun 7, 2015 at 8:46 am

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  Hi!

  I’m trying to fit a large picture on my blog’s header, and I read somewhere that with Sela, it’s better to use the logo option than header for that. The thread I was reading (can’t find it anymore, sorry) said the logo image can be any size.

  When I set my image as the logo of my site in the customizer, it shows almost full-width, just as I want it to be. However, when I hit “save & activate”, it reduces to a small logo picture. Is there a way to fix this? Or can I somehow make the header space bigger and set my image as a header?

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  wisteriawalk · Member · Jun 7, 2015 at 8:54 am

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  Forgot to say: my current logo image works fine, so apparently it is possible to have a logo that wide.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 9, 2015 at 4:08 pm

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  Hi, I’m seeing a full width logo on your site right now. Is what you have right now what you were wanting?

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  wisteriawalk · Member · Jun 10, 2015 at 8:34 am

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  Hi! Nope, that is the older one that’s working fine. I’m trying to upload a new one, and it won’t seem to work the same way.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 10, 2015 at 6:01 pm

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  If you have the file uploaded to your media library, can you give me a link to it and I would be happy to see if I can figure out what is going on? If you haven’t uploaded it, can you do that and give me a link?

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  wisteriawalk · Member · Jun 11, 2015 at 9:51 am

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  Here’s the file: https://wisteriawalk.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/wisteria_header_3.jpg

  Could it be that the picture is too big for the header area?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 11, 2015 at 4:04 pm

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  Could it be that the picture is too big for the header area?

  That could well be the issue. I would suggest making it closer to the size of the header area. The size of the one there now is 984px wide by 216px high.

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  wisteriawalk · Member · Jun 12, 2015 at 12:33 pm

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  Is there a way to make the header space bigger? I’m using Sela in another blog, and I once managed to upload a bigger header image there: kaikkikay.wordpress.com. (I know it’s not very pretty right now, but at least it worked.) Can’t remember what I did, though. I’m a bit clueless with these things, sorry!

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jun 15, 2015 at 5:36 pm

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  It looks like you just uploaded a taller site logo on kaikkikay.wordpress.com.

  Sela displays a maximum logo image size of 1180 by 380, while retaining the image’s proportions. Your Wisteria header is closer to a square in its proportions than a rectangle. You may want to try recreating the graphic in more of a landscape rectangle orientation.