WordPress- Only Display Element On Homepage

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" />
<?
}
?>

If you use the above code, you will still see the image when you paginate to the second page of the homepage. If you strictly want it on the homepage, and no other pagination pages, you should use the following code:

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<?
if (is_home() && strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "/page/") === false) {
?>
<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