A Header template replaces your theme’s default header everywhere it’s assigned — built once in Elementor with the same widgets as any other page, then shown automatically on the front end.
Requires: Tiger Elements Pro. In the Free plugin this feature appears as an “Upgrade to Pro” card.
Where: WP Admin → Tiger Elements → Theme Builder → Header card → Create.
Building a header
- From the Theme Builder screen, create a new template and set its Template Type to Header.
- Design it in Elementor — a logo (Site Logo), a Nav Menu widget, search, buttons, and any Tiger widgets you’d use elsewhere.
- Set its Display Conditions to control where it appears.
- Publish.
Display conditions
Conditions decide which pages a header applies to. Each row combines an Include or Exclude rule with a target, and you can stack several. For a site header, Entire Site is the usual choice, but you can scope narrower — a specific page, all singular content, a whole post type — or exclude particular pages.
How the theme’s header is hidden
When a header template is active, Tiger automatically hides your theme’s own header so you never see two stacked together. It targets the header markup of common themes (Astra, Neve, OceanWP, Blocksy, Kadence and block/FSE themes) as well as generic site-header markup. If your theme uses an unusual structure, a developer can add its selector through a simple filter.
Sticky headers
Sticky behavior isn’t a separate template type — it’s the general Tiger Sticky feature. Select the header’s outer container, open Advanced → Tiger Sticky, and enable it (with offsets, per-device control, and stuck-state styling like a shrinking, blurred bar). Tiger includes a fix so a sticky header pins correctly against the page even inside the theme-builder wrapper. A transparent-over-hero look, by contrast, is achieved with ordinary section background styling on the header container, not a dedicated setting.
How ties are broken
When more than one Header matches the current page, resolution runs in order: (1) the more specific condition wins — a single named page beats a whole post type, which beats “All Singular”, which beats “Entire Site”; (2) if still tied, the lower Priority number wins (default 10); (3) if still tied, the older template wins. So a header assigned to one specific page always beats a site-wide header on that page, automatically.
Troubleshooting
My header isn’t showing.
Confirm it’s Published, its Template Type is Header, and it has at least one Include condition matching the page you’re viewing.
I see two headers.
Tiger hides common theme headers automatically. If yours persists, the theme likely uses non-standard markup — add its selector via the tiger_tb_hide_header_selectors filter. If you also run Elementor Pro, check whether the “yield to Elementor Pro” option is on.