Header and footer not on 1st page?

Question

My header and footer do not appear on the first page. I hope they do. The solution of a duplicate question is not working for me. That is why I still decided to post my question. I will make the tile more informative once I have known the cause.

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref} % hide the links
% For custom spacing
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{1.2} 
% For the symbols
\usepackage{wasysym}
\usepackage{marvosym}
\usepackage[alpine]{ifsym}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\lhead{
\Mundus\enspace \href{http://sites.google.com/site/}{http://sites.google.com/site/}
}
\rhead{
\MVAt\enspace \href{mailto:e@gmail.com}{e@gmail.com}
}
\cfoot{\thepage/2}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}}
\newcommand{\Hrule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.3mm}}
\makeatletter% since there's an at-sign (@) in the command name
\renewcommand{@maketitle}{%
  \parindent=0pt% don't indent paragraphs in the title block
  \centering
  {\LARGE \bfseries\textsc{@title}}
  \HRule\par%
  \textit{@author \hfill @date}
  \par
}
\makeatother% resets the meaning of the at-sign (@)
\title{Statement of Purpose}
\author{X}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
  \maketitle% prints the title block
  \thispagestyle{empty}
  \vspace{12pt}
\lipsum
\end{document}

Please make sure to reduce your code to the very minimum, e.g. the only package necessary to show your problem is fancyhdr (see http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/228/ive-just-been-asked-to-write-a-minimal-example-what-is-that/3225#3225). — doncherry, Oct 12 '14 at 14:28

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 12 '14 at 14:06

\maketitle defines the current page style as plain. Hence you have to define the plain page style.

\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
  \fancyhf{}
\lhead{
\Mundus\enspace \href{http://sites.google.com/site/}{http://sites.google.com/site/}
}
\rhead{
\MVAt\enspace \href{mailto:e@gmail.com}{e@gmail.com}
}
\cfoot{\thepage/2}
}

Full code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref} % hide the links
% For custom spacing
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{1.2}
% For the symbols
\usepackage{wasysym}
\usepackage{marvosym}
\usepackage[alpine]{ifsym}

\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\lhead{
\Mundus\enspace \href{http://sites.google.com/site/}{http://sites.google.com/site/}
}
\rhead{
\MVAt\enspace \href{mailto:e@gmail.com}{e@gmail.com}
}
\cfoot{\thepage/2}

\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
  \fancyhf{}
\lhead{
\Mundus\enspace \href{http://sites.google.com/site/}{http://sites.google.com/site/}
}
\rhead{
\MVAt\enspace \href{mailto:e@gmail.com}{e@gmail.com}
}
\cfoot{\thepage/2}
}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}}
\newcommand{\Hrule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.3mm}}

\makeatletter% since there's an at-sign (@) in the command name
\renewcommand{\@maketitle}{%
  \parindent=0pt% don't indent paragraphs in the title block
  \centering
  {\LARGE \bfseries\textsc{\@title}}
  \HRule\par%
  \textit{\@author \hfill \@date}
  \par
}
\makeatother% resets the meaning of the at-sign (@)

\title{Statement of Purpose}
\author{X}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}
  \maketitle% prints the title block
  %\thispagestyle{empty}
  \vspace{12pt}

\lipsum
\end{document}

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Thanks a lot! It works. \fancypagestyle{plain} is a paradox, though. LOL — Sibbs Gambling, Oct 12 '14 at 14:15
Why not just \makeatletter\let\ps@plain\ps@fancy\makeatother? — Sveinung, Oct 12 '14 at 15:48
@Sveinung That is also a possibility. I wanted to show it in fancyhdr way. — , Oct 12 '14 at 23:42

Sveinung · Answer 2 · 2014-10-13T16:35:48.707

If you want the same headers and footers on the title page as on the other pages, a simple solution is redefine the plain-pagestyle to have the same content as the pagestyle you use in the rest of the document (i.e. \pagestyle{fancy}).You may use the the \let-command to do that.

\let\ps@plain\ps@fancy

Since it contains the @you have to enclose it in a \makeatletter\makeatother pair. You already have such a pair where you redefine the @\maketitle-command, so add the \let either at the beginning or end of that code:

\makeatletter% since there's an at-sign (@) in the command name

\let\ps@plain\ps@fancy %% ---> change the headers and footer at the title-page

\renewcommand{\@maketitle}{%
  \parindent=0pt% don't indent paragraphs in the title block
  \centering
  {\LARGE \bfseries\textsc{\@title}}
  \HRule\par%
  \textit{\@author \hfill \@date}
  \par
}
\makeatother% resets the meaning of the at-sign (@)

Header and footer not on 1st page?

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