Centering the logo on a WordPress site is a popular design concept, but doing it can be tricky. Most themes, Storefront included, are styled with the logo aligned to the left.

While you can use a premium plugin like Storefront Designer to center the logo, you can edit your child theme’s CSS instead. There are two benefits in doing this manually. For one, you don’t have to buy a plugin. Secondly, you don’t add extra bloat to your site.

How to Center Logo in Storefront with CSS

Before anything else, you should install a child theme on your site otherwise the changes you make will be lost every time you update your theme. Alternatively, you can use Simple Custom CSS Plugin which creates a new stylesheet that won’t get overwritten.

Add the following code to your child theme’s styles.css:

@media screen and (min-width: 768px) {
	.site-branding{
		text-align: center;
		margin: 0 auto !important;
		float: none !important;
	}
}

Text align and margin set the margin to adjust accordingly to the sides. We need to place “!important” in that line to make sure that it gets priority and doesn’t get overridden by other CSS codes.

We also need to override the default “float:left;” code so that it won’t stick to the left. We do this using “float:none !important;”.

To make sure these styles don’t affect the mobile version of your site, we set a minimum width in the selector.

Doing Away with the Secondary Menu and Search Bar

If you are using Storefront out of the box, the secondary menu and the product search bar will still be in the way. We need to do something about that next. Temporarily, the header will look something like this.

To remove the secondary menu, go to Appearance > Customize > Menu > Menu Locations and do not set the secondary menu to anything.

To move the search bar inline with the main navigation and cart menu, you have to paste the code below to your functions.php file. A word of warning, do not proceed with this step if you do not know what you are doing. One slip up here could cause your site to go down and become inaccessible. Alternatively, you can install My Custom Functions plugin to insert the code. The plugin warns the user the code will cause a fatal error.

add_action( 'init', 'jk_remove_storefront_header_search' );
function jk_remove_storefront_header_search() {
remove_action( 'storefront_header', 'storefront_product_search', 	40 );
add_action( 'storefront_header', 'storefront_product_search', 	70 );
}

After this step, your site will look something like this.

The product search bar is still not inline with the main navigation as you can see. The CSS code below will adjust the width of the main navigation so that the search box won’t warp around to the bottom.

/*adjusting the width of the main-navigation*/
.woocommerce-active .site-header .main-navigation {
	width: 50%;
}

Applying the CSS code above will result to this. Now, the only thing left to do is to resize the search box using CSS.

Putting Everything Together

Put everything inside the media screen brackets, together with the CSS code for the resizing of the search box. The final CSS code will be:

@media screen and (min-width: 768px) {
	/*centers the logo*/
	.site-branding{
		text-align: center;
		margin: 0 auto !important;
		float: none !important;
	}
	/* adjusts the width of the main navigation container to accommodate the search box in the same line*/
	.woocommerce-active .site-header .main-navigation {
		width: 50%;
	}
	/* positions the search icon properly in the search box*/
	#masthead .site-search .widget_product_search form:before {
		top: 1.75em;
		left: .75em;
		position: relative;
	}
	/*  resizes the search box*/
	#masthead .site-search .widget_product_search input[type=search],#masthead .site-search .widget_product_search input[type=text] {
		padding: .5em .5em .5em 2em;
		line-height: 1;
	}
	/* places the search box to the left of the cart menu(optional)*/
	.woocommerce-active .site-header .site-search {
		float: left;
	}

}

And you’re done. The outcome should look something like this.

If you are unable to achieve this with the above code snippets, it could be that you are using a child theme that has codes that conflict with the codes above. Feel free to post your questions in the comments section.