diff --git a/CustomHeaderPlugin.php b/CustomHeaderPlugin.php
index 45d493f..91a859c 100644
--- a/CustomHeaderPlugin.php
+++ b/CustomHeaderPlugin.php
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ function displayTemplateHook($hookName, $params) {
 			$request = Application::get()->getRequest();
 			$context = $request->getContext();
 			$templateMgr->addHeader('custom', $this->getSetting($context?$context->getId():CONTEXT_ID_NONE, 'content'));
+			$templateMgr->addHeader('custombackend', $this->getSetting($context?$context->getId():CONTEXT_ID_NONE, 'backendContent'), ['contexts' => ['backend']]);
 		}
 		return false;
 	}
diff --git a/CustomHeaderSettingsForm.php b/CustomHeaderSettingsForm.php
index 198bc37..1a0bba1 100644
--- a/CustomHeaderSettingsForm.php
+++ b/CustomHeaderSettingsForm.php
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ function __construct($plugin, $contextId) {
 
 		parent::__construct($plugin->getTemplateResource('settingsForm.tpl'));
 
+		$this->addCheck(new \PKP\form\validation\FormValidatorCustom($this, 'backendContent', FORM_VALIDATOR_OPTIONAL_VALUE, 'plugins.generic.customHeader.backendContent.error', function ($backendContent) { return $this->validateWellFormed($backendContent); }));
 		$this->addCheck(new \PKP\form\validation\FormValidatorPost($this));
 		$this->addCheck(new \PKP\form\validation\FormValidatorCSRF($this));
 	}
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ function __construct($plugin, $contextId) {
 	function initData() {
 		$this->_data = array(
 			'content' => $this->_plugin->getSetting($this->_contextId, 'content'),
+			'backendContent' => $this->_plugin->getSetting($this->_contextId, 'backendContent'),
 			'footerContent' => $this->_plugin->getSetting($this->_contextId, 'footerContent')
 		);
 	}
@@ -54,7 +56,7 @@ function initData() {
 	 * Assign form data to user-submitted data.
 	 */
 	function readInputData() {
-		$this->readUserVars(array('content', 'footerContent'));
+		$this->readUserVars(array('content', 'backendContent', 'footerContent'));
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -75,8 +77,26 @@ function execute(...$functionArgs) {
 
 		$request = Application::get()->getRequest();
 		$this->_plugin->updateSetting($this->_contextId, 'content', $this->getData('content'), 'string');
+		$this->_plugin->updateSetting($this->_contextId, 'backendContent', $this->getData('backendContent'), 'string');
 		$this->_plugin->updateSetting($this->_contextId, 'footerContent', $this->getData('footerContent'), 'string');
 		$notificationManager = new NotificationManager();
 		$notificationManager->createTrivialNotification($request->getUser()->getId(), NOTIFICATION_TYPE_SUCCESS);
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Validate that the input is well-formed XML
+	 * We want to avoid breaking the whole HTML page with an unclosed HTML attribute quote or tag
+	 * @param $input string
+	 * @return boolean
+	 */
+	function validateWellFormed($input) {
+		$libxml_errors_setting = libxml_use_internal_errors();
+		libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
+		libxml_clear_errors();
+		$dom = new DOMDocument();
+		$dom->loadHTML($input);
+		$isWellFormed = count(libxml_get_errors())==0;
+		libxml_use_internal_errors($libxml_errors_setting);
+		return $isWellFormed;
+	}
 }
diff --git a/locale/en/locale.po b/locale/en/locale.po
index d3f3cbd..c762243 100644
--- a/locale/en/locale.po
+++ b/locale/en/locale.po
@@ -25,3 +25,9 @@ msgstr "Header Content"
 
 msgid "plugins.generic.customHeader.footerContent"
 msgstr "Footer Content"
+
+msgid "plugins.generic.customHeader.backendContent"
+msgstr "Editorial Backend Header Content"
+
+msgid "plugins.generic.customHeader.backendContent.error"
+msgstr "Editorial Backend Header Content must be valid XHTML."
diff --git a/templates/settingsForm.tpl b/templates/settingsForm.tpl
index f74f477..572bb62 100644
--- a/templates/settingsForm.tpl
+++ b/templates/settingsForm.tpl
@@ -8,12 +8,6 @@
  * Plugin settings
  *
  *}
-<div id="customHeaderSettings">
-<div id="description">{translate key="plugins.generic.customHeader.manager.settings.description"}</div>
-
-<div class="separator"></div>
-
-<br />
 
 <script>
 	$(function() {ldelim}
@@ -23,21 +17,24 @@
 </script>
 <form class="pkp_form" id="customHeaderSettingsForm" method="post" action="{url router=$smarty.const.ROUTE_COMPONENT op="manage" category="generic" plugin=$pluginName verb="settings" save=true}">
 	{csrf}
+	<p id="description">{translate key="plugins.generic.customHeader.manager.settings.description"}</p>
+	{include file="controllers/notification/inPlaceNotification.tpl" notificationId="customHeaderFormNotification"}
 
 	{fbvFormArea id="customHeaderSettingsFormArea"}
 		{fbvFormSection for="headerContent" title="plugins.generic.customHeader.content"}
 			{fbvElement type="textarea" name="content" id="headerContent" value=$content height=$fbvStyles.height.TALL}
 		{/fbvFormSection}
-	{/fbvFormArea}
-
-	{fbvFormArea id="customHeaderSettingsFormArea"}
 		{fbvFormSection for="footerContent" title="plugins.generic.customHeader.footerContent"}
 			{fbvElement type="textarea" name="footerContent" id="footerContent" value=$footerContent height=$fbvStyles.height.TALL}
 		{/fbvFormSection}
 	{/fbvFormArea}
 
+	{fbvFormArea id="customHeaderBackendSettingsFormArea"}
+		{fbvFormSection for="backendContent" title="plugins.generic.customHeader.backendContent"}
+			{fbvElement type="textarea" name="backendContent" id="backendContent" value=$backendContent height=$fbvStyles.height.TALL}
+		{/fbvFormSection}
+	{/fbvFormArea}
+
 	{fbvFormButtons}
 </form>
 
-<p><span class="formRequired">{translate key="common.requiredField"}</span></p>
-</div>