WordPress 5 Cookbook

How to do it...

The availability of the header videos feature depends on the theme. We are going to use the Twenty Twenty Child theme for this recipe. The header video feature is not supported by default in the Twenty Twenty theme. Due to this, we have to add support to our child theme. Follow these steps to do so:

1. Open the wp-content/themes/twentytwentychild/functions.php file with your code editor.
2. Add the following lines of code to the end of the file to add support for a header video and save the file:

add_theme_support( 'custom-header', array( 'video' => true,) );

3. Log in to the WordPress Dashboard as an administrator.
4. Click the Appearance menu.

5. Click the Header option to open the Theme Customizer, as shown in the following screenshot: ...