Is it possible to use the featured image in a header or as a background image?

[rscaife2]

I am building a custom header for my site, and I would like to be able to use the featured image of a page as a background photo in said header.

Is it possible to do this?

Currently operating off of a child-theme of the Pro theme. Happy to provide any other details if necessary.

[christopher]

Hi there,

No, unfortunately, it is not possible to do that with the out of the box functions of the theme and the header builder.

I have a customization idea that might help you achieve somewhat the same thing but it is way beyond our support scope and I will try to give you the steps for a developer that you will need to hire to do such a coding for you:

1. In the functions.php file of your Child Theme, add a custom shortcode.
2. The shortcode needs to get the featured image URL of the post.
3. In the shortcode use the <img> tag and the URL of the image which you get in the previous step and add the image.
4. Add the shortcode to the Content Area element.

Please kindly consider that we will not be able to implement this customization and the steps above is the extra effort to be as helpful as possible for a support request.

Thank you for your understanding.