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1. obiwan77
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have 2 instances of wordpress installed on a single domain name, one for 1 language version, a second in a subfolder for the english version, like http://mydomain.com/en/

   On the home page of each version I want to display some specific text in the footer which should not display in internal posts or pages.

   On the 1st language version the is_home tag works well.

   However, for some reason, on the english version the is_home is not recognizing http://mydomain.com/en/ to be the homepage, hence the text does not display.

   How can I solve this to set the english site's homepage as the 'home' page?

2. jkovis
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   you might want to try is_front_page()

   also, what is listed for your WordPress address (URL) and Site address (URL) on wp-admin/options-general.php?

3. obiwan77
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   @jkovis
   thanks for your reply.
   is_front_page(): does not work either

   If I look at the General tab under settings the wp address (home) is: http://mydomain.com/en
   and the blog url is set to the same url.

   I looked at the code in the options-general.php file. Here is the part of the code that I believe is relevant, but I cannot interprete it correctly:

   <?php if ( !is_multisite() ) { ?>
   <tr valign="top">
   <th scope="row"><label for="siteurl"><?php _e('WordPress address (URL)') ?></label></th>
   <td><input name="siteurl" type="text" id="siteurl" value="<?php form_option('siteurl'); ?>"<?php disabled( defined( 'WP_SITEURL' ) ); ?> class="regular-text code<?php if ( defined( 'WP_SITEURL' ) ) echo ' disabled' ?>" /></td>
   </tr>
   <tr valign="top">
   <th scope="row"><label for="home"><?php _e('Site address (URL)') ?></label></th>
   <td><input name="home" type="text" id="home" value="<?php form_option('home'); ?>"<?php disabled( defined( 'WP_HOME' ) ); ?> class="regular-text code<?php if ( defined( 'WP_HOME' ) ) echo ' disabled' ?>" />
   <span class="description"><?php _e('Enter the address here if you want your site homepage <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory">to be different from the directory</a> you installed WordPress.'); ?></span>

4. obiwan77
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   BTW:
   the code I mention had been put in the footer.php file, and it works on the wp instance I installed at the root (french language version).

   on the english version (the one where is_home does not work), any change I make to the footer.php file is not taken into account, whether with the is_home tag or any simple text editing = is not updated on the site. It seems like an old version of the footer is displayed all the time.

   Any idea?

   cheers

5. obiwan77
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I found a way around this:
   any changes made to the the footer.php file appearing through the wp dashboard (appearance-editor) was NOT accounted for.

   I manually copied, changed the footer.php file via ftp and uploaded the modified version. It works fine now.

   Any idea why the wp-admin access to the file does not update the "real" file?

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