## Post header styles

Product: Verba - Modern Blog & Magazine WordPress Theme
URL: https://hub.jkdevstudio.com/docs/verba/the-single-post/header-style
Updated: 2026-09-09
Summary: The five header layouts for the top of an article in Verba, how each one handles video, gallery, audio, and 3D posts, and how to override the style per post.
Availability: Pro only.

The post header is everything above the article text: title, subtitle, category, author, date, reading time, breadcrumbs, and the main media.

A header style does not decide what is shown. It decides how those pieces are arranged. Which pieces appear is set separately, in the same tab.

## The five styles

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Default
: Title and meta above the media, in a straightforward column. Works with anything, including posts with no image.

Overlay
: Text sits on top of the image. The most dramatic option, and the one that needs a strong, uncluttered photograph.

Two-side
: Text on one side, media on the other. Good for wide screens and portrait images.

Featured
: A larger, more prominent treatment for material you want to look important.

Overlap
: The text block overlaps the media, sitting partly on it and partly below.

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The style is chosen globally at [[Verba > Theme Options > Single Post > Header]], and overridden on one post by its own field. The "same as the site" value on the post returns it to the global choice. See Post fields.

## Headers and post formats

Each style adapts to the type of media the post carries. A video post shows the player in the header, a gallery shows a swipeable set, an audio post shows the player, and a 3D post shows the model.

The practical consequence: test a style on a post with the format you actually publish. Overlay looks superb over a large photograph and falls apart on a post with no featured image at all.

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If most of your posts have no featured image, overlay and overlap are the wrong choice site-wide. Set the global style for the common case and override the exceptions per post.

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How the media behaves as the reader scrolls is a separate feature. See Reading bar and Post formats.

## What is configured alongside

The same [[Verba > Theme Options > Single Post > Header]] tab holds the composition and order of the meta line, the thumbnail treatment and its caption, and whether breadcrumbs appear.

<details><summary>One post needs a different header than the rest</summary>

Set it in the post Appearance panel. That field always beats the global choice, and clearing it hands control back.

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<details><summary>The header shows no image</summary>

The post has no featured image, or its post format is pointing the header at media fields that are empty.

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