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1. nlaspf
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I run into a weird bug on 2.3. I'm using a static home page ("Home"), and then another page ("Archive") to dislpay the blog. I have no way to target only the "Archive" page with conditional comments. is_home() will return true for both the front page and the posts page ("Home" and "Archive" in my case). is_page('Archive') doesn't work. I also tried the is_frontpage() plugin but it doesn't return true for any page.

   Am I doing something wrong or is this a problem that appeared after "fixing" the behavior of is_home from previous versions? Is anyone else having this problem?

2. hotbelgo
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I have the same problem with a static index.php page and the blog in /blog/index.php. is_home is returning positive in both cases: see http://af.awardspace.co.uk/

   What is the best way to differentiate between these two pages?

   HB

3. Alex Cragg
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   maybe try using is_page() with the id of the page you have as the static homepage in the brackets?

4. drphil9001
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I have the same problem as well and here is how I got around what I think is a bug. (See thread.)

   I have a WP Page called Blog and a corresponding template Blog.php with a template name of TmplBlog. Be sure that the template name is different from the name of the page or other weirdness (bugs?) will crop up with navigation links.

   I created the following conditional functions in my functions.php file:

   function get_page_id($page_title, $output = OBJECT) {
   	global $wpdb;
   	$page_title = $wpdb->escape($page_title);
   	$page = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_title = '$page_title' AND post_type='page'");
   	if ( $page )
   		return $page;
   
   	return NULL;
   }
   
   function is_blog() {
   	global $wp_query;
   	global $cached_page_id;
   	$blog_page_id = get_page_id('Blog');
   	if ( is_category() || is_day() || is_month() || is_year() || is_paged() || is_single() )
   		return true;
   	if ( isset($cached_page_id) && ($blog_page_id == $cached_page_id ))
   		return true;
   	if ( is_page('Blog') )
   		return true;
   
   	return false;
   }

   I then make sure that in any logic a call to is_blog() happens prior to any is_home calls. Note that the cached_page_id business is there since the page_id seems to be reset when I run custom queries on the page. So I cache it first thing on my TmplBlog tempalte.

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