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1. galexkeene
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   hi all.. trying to write my own theme that will display just (an excerpt) of my most recent post, plus a footer/sidebar when it is the homepage... but on all other pages, display like a normal blog (archives, etc)...

   codex seems to indicate after 2.1 under settings>reading there are some static front page settings (but this isn't really static), even though i don't see them.

   was that feature taken back out? will is_home() work for me in some sort of conditional thing within index?

   thanks, alex

2. VelvetBlues.com
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   is_home() returns true only on the main blog page
   is_front_page() returns true on the website home page

   So if you have a static front page and you want to show something on that, you'd use is_front_page(), and modify 'page.php'.

   If you are not using a static front page, then either should work. And you'd modify 'index.php'.

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