Comments on: How To Make A Custom Home Page Title

By: Joefiro.com » How To Improve Your Blog

Joefiro.com » How To Improve Your Blog — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:22:17 +0000

[...] Chow wrote an article on how to make a custom Home Page title. After reading the comments I am not convinced using [...]

By: a.erol

a.erol — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:34:54 +0000

nice way around. thanks to Chow & SEO Blog..

By: Lejer

Lejer — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:21:01 +0000

So many people giving advices.
Well… php rocks for wordpress:) If you know just a bit of, you can make a lot.
about $_SERVER: there’s the simple way
is_home, or is_something… it’s on the WP framework:) Why should i look for something (waste time) when it’s so easy to just put it there?:)

Notice: for ones that have their blogs in a subfolder, request_uri should be properly set. For those, is_home it’s the simple way:)

And… i’m using the $_SERVER method to have a my own location for readers.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:18:52 +0000

Oh, and I think they are all functions..

so you need to test using

if (is_home()) {
// Do Whatever.
}

You can also do the inverse, notice the bang (!), which basically means NOT.

if (!is_home()) {
// Do whatever.
}

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:17:17 +0000

To add to this, there are a bunch of built in WP functions like this.

is_search() — Search Query
is_page() — Manually added “static” page
is_post() — Normal posts
is_single() — Is there just one item on the page (ie not front/category pages).

I’m sure there are more, but with those you can do some tricky things.

By: Erik (DeveloperDose.com)

Erik (DeveloperDose.com) — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:41:42 +0000

Thanks for the hack, very useful Wordpress trick.

By: Wahlau.NET

Wahlau.NET — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:55:57 +0000

thanks for the heads up

By: Jez

Jez — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:11:18 +0000

There is an “is_home” variable you can test against instead of testing against the URI… not that it really matters…

By: Ankur

Ankur — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:07:00 +0000

Could you explain it a little better please?

By: Ankur

Ankur — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:03:26 +0000

Its good, but for one flaw.

You have to rename every post individually!