WordPress- Only Display Element On Homepage

Oct 20th, 2008
Maruf scribbled this post.

A lot of the files in WordPress are used as includes e.g Sidebar, header and footer. What if you want certain elements in those includes to appear just on the Homepage? I find myself needing that feature all the time.

Example

All you really need is one simple function. So for example, in your header you may have an image which you want to appear on the homepage:

The Code

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<?
if (is_home()) {
?>
<img src="http://www.brightcherry.co.uk/images/logo.png" title="brightCherry Logo" alt="BrightCherry Logo" />
<?
}
?>

Now the image will only appear on the homepage!

Next time i’ll show you how to link specific elements to particular posts