title: Magento 1.9: Add custom block to header
body: <p>I have this in my local.xml.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;reference name="header"&gt;
          &lt;block type="core/template" name="wc-customheadblock" template="wc-customheadblock.phtml" /&gt;
      &lt;/reference&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Inside wc-customheadblock.phtml i have:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div style="height:100px; background-color:green"&gt;
  
  &lt;h1&gt;This is the wc custom head block&lt;/h1&gt;
  
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But this block is not appearing in the header. I've tried the same for the sidebars (by changing the xml reference name) and it works just fine. Why does this not work for the header?</p>
  
  <p>This site claims its possible to make add blocks to the header using local.xml!
  <a href="http://www.classyllama.com/development/magento-development/the-better-way-to-modify-magento-layout" rel="nofollow">http://www.classyllama.com/development/magento-development/the-better-way-to-modify-magento-layout</a></p>