How to: Change the e107 default logo

This means the logo is being called from the theme stylesheet via the theme/style.css file.

Open up the style.css file and look for something like:

.logo {border:0; background: #F2EEEC; background-image: url(images/logo.png);}

If your theme uses this technique then you need to edit the image path from logo.png to reflect your logo i.e. logo.gif etc. and have the logo saved in your e107_themes/yourtheme/images folder

Again if this is a standard shipped theme, do ensure you create a copy of the theme folder with your own name, as it may be overwritten at upgrade.

Changing the Logo Shortcode

Another way with a bit more e107 and php knowledge is to edit the file which calls the default logo.png, but again this is not recommended due to upgrade overwrite issues.

Important:

In printed material on the site i.e. print.php will still use the e107_images/logo.png file if you don't replace that, then the image will be the default. So if you do change the default logo, ensure you have a copy to re-apply at upgrade.

In PDF Pages, the icon used is logopdf.png, again, change the one in your custom theme.

For reference

For e107 0.7 then the logo.png call has been moved from the header_default.php into e107_files/shortcode/logo.sc

return "<img src='".e_IMAGE_ABS."logo.png' alt='Logo' />
";

So you can change the default format of .png to say .gif or .jpg in that file.

As 0.7 is still being developed you don't really want to be editing core files which are subject to constant updates. So there is now the option for you to simply add your logo.png file into your "theme" folder which will override the core one in e107_images.

So in e107 versions 0.7.10+ to make {LOGO} use your own logo without hacking any files: rename your logo e_logo.png and place it in the folder e107_themes/Your Theme/images/

This list is not exhaustive as there are may be other (but rarely used) ways to call a logo but this should help you find the answer!

Hints

* if you want to change the logo you might want to change favicon.ico in the root directory 
 of your e107 installation as well. 

* e107 will search for an existing favicon.ico in your current theme before using
  the root favicon.ico

*  you also might want to change or delete 
  the default avatar 'avatar_1.png' in e107_images/avatars/

*  the e107_images/logo.png is also used in printer friendly pages

*  there is also an adminlogo.png file in e107_images/avatars/

* splash.jpg is used by the first Welcome message (/e107_admin/wmessage.php?create.edit.1). 
Admin > Content > Welcome Message > 
click on  and you can edit this message.

Fav-Icon

See: HowTo: Change e107 Fav Icons