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How To Add Or Move A Logo Image To Any Nav Menu

In this post, i’ll show you several different ways to add a logo image to either your primary or secondary navigation menu. Try this code if you only want to move your site title into your menu.

You’ll also be able to float your logo to the left or right of your menu items.

On top of this, you can easily change the position your image sits in your menu.

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Here’s the PHP & CSS code you need to add at the end of your child themes functions.php & style.css files.

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  1. Hi Brad,

    I’ve got the logo sitting where I want it to in the nav bar now, but like the commenter above, I want to make the logo hyperlink back to the front page.

    I’ve tried the code you replied with above but don’t understand exactly where to add my URL and the image address. Can you please help? Thanks. 

    add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'wpsites_add_logo_nav_menu', 10, 2 );
function wpsites_add_logo_nav_menu( $menu, stdClass $args ){
 
    if ( 'primary' != $args->theme_location )
        return $menu;
 
    $menu .= sprintf( '<a href="' . esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ) . '" rel="nofollow">%s', __( '') );
 
    return $menu;
 
}

  2. Hi Brad,

    Thanks for the code, it works perfectly.
    But I would like to create an grey hover effect when I pass the mouse on the logo, how do I do that please?

    Best,

  3. I am trying to put a larger image than the height of the Nav Bar, The Nav Bar is adjusting to make up for the space, now I have a very high nav bar, is there a way to keep the nav bar the same height, but have the image over hang on the top and bottom?

    • Hello Michelle

      Code updated: Simply add your logo.png image file to your child themes images folder and use this code.

      This is not the only way to code this function.

      You could use a different class so it validates for W3 Standards (which i will do and update the code) and you could print the HTML for the image differently.

      Then add list-style-type to the declarations like this:

      .nav-logo {
float: left;
margin-right: 20px;
margin-top: 20px;
list-style-type: none;
}

      And that now validates for W3.

      • Hi Brad,

        Thanks so much for addressing this so quickly! I’m a little unclear on what you’re saying about validating for W3, however. Are you suggesting using the code you just provided with the modified CSS (the one that includes list-style-type: none;) or are you saying that the function would need to be different altogether to validate for W3?

        Also, I’m trying to ensure that when I insert the logo in the navigation menu, it remains to the left of all of the other links in the menu (like the sample images you show). But currently, the logo seems to jump to a second line below the other links in the menu if there are too many items in the menu or if the page size is reduced. How can I tell the function to load the logo first and always make it the first item at left in the menu?

        Thanks again for all of your help!

        Michelle

        • You can skip that part as i i have updated the code and tested it.

          There’s many different ways to write code that does the same thing.

          PHP is only one side of the solution but doesn’t tell the browser where to output the HTML so you also need to add CSS.

          Its impossible to provide CSS code that works on every theme as there’s 1000’s which are all coded differently.

          I can only provide sample CSS which may need tweaking and/or additions of extra declarations.

          Little bit of work on your behalf is required.

          Watch out for a new post which includes another option for the CSS in a similar solution.

          Something like this may work if you change some of the values:

          .search-form {
position: absolute;
right: 105px;
padding-top: 15px;
width: 360px;
list-style-type: none;
}

          • Hi Brad,

            I apologize if I was unclear. The search field is fine and the logo is lining up on the left side. But, for some reason, the logo is showing up on a second line below the other menu items. Basically, I’m trying to get the logo to show at the beginning of the menu (the first item with subsequent menu items aligned to the right of the logo).

            How do I make the logo the first to display in the list rather than the last (as it currently is)?

            I understand that CSS is theme/site specific, but this seems like something that should be inserted in the function to tell the logo where to load within wp_nav_menu_items.

            Thanks again for all of your help!!

            Michelle

  7. Thank you for this tip.
    However in my twenty thirteen chip theme, my logo goes to the right of the navbar instead of left.
    What do you think I can do, to put it on the left ?
    Many thanks!

  8. Something I really want to try is turning the logo into an SVG, importing that into the IconMoon app, making it part of an icon-font set and then resolving the retina display problem that way. The thing I haven’t tested yet is whether the CSS class on the WordPress menu item would work. I tried inserting a character code into the “Navigation Label” area of a WordPress Menu but that didn’t work, it won’t accept it. I should try a div in that area…a while ago HTML worked in Page Titles….hmmm….

    This would not work with multi-coloured logos but would be a really great solution for one-colour logos….

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