I guess I was answering this in your other thread as you were posting this.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/345547?replies=3#post-1329380
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al-c
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Thank you Chris but I am not sure where this change is inserted.
Here is a copy of my Header code
Thank you very much
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head>
<title><?php wp_title('«', true, 'right'); ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/favicon.ico" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 1.0" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body>
<!-- HEADER -->
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">
<div id="raccoglitore">
<div id="logo"><h1><a>" title="<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1><h2><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></h2></div>
<div id="rss"><a>" ><img alt="Tieniti sempre aggiornato sulle ultime di Skimbu!" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/rss.png" /></a></div>
</div>
<div id="navbar_top"></div>
<div id="navbar">
<ul>
<li class="page_item"><a>">Home</a> <?php wp_list_pages('sort_order=desc&title_li='); ?>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="navbar_bottom"></div>
</div>
<div id="content">
<!-- END HEADER -->
In your header find: <h2><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></h2>
Replace it with
<?php if (is_home()) { ?>
<h2><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></h2>
<?php } ?>
Thread Starter
al-c
(@al-c)
Chris, thank you very much. It worked great! I would have never been able to figure that one out myself. Now that we’re on a roll- how about another.
How do you get the author name to only show up on the home page and not on any other pages.
Thank you
Glad it helped.
Pretty much the same deal for the next one. WordPress themes use Template Tags to display data. Locate the theme file that has the tag that your theme is using to show the author’s name (it’ll probably have “author” in the name) and then use a similar if statement like we used above.
Without knowing what your blog theme is or looks like I can only make a guess that you probably want to check the theme’s index.php file.
I hope that gets you in the right neighborhood.
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al-c
(@al-c)
Chris,
This looks like the place in the index php file to make the change.
Can you hold my hand again and tell me what to do.
thanks
<h2>By <span style=”color:#0066FF”><?php the_author() ?> <?php if(function_exists(‘the_views’)) { the_views(); } ?></span></h2>
OK, here we go:
In your theme’s index.php file find: <?php the_author() ?>
Replace it with
<?php if (is_home()) {
the_author(); ?>
} ?>
See if that’ll work.
Thread Starter
al-c
(@al-c)
Ok, we’re only batting 50%- that one didn’t work as got error message when I visited the site. Any other thoughts
Thank you.
If other thoughts fail, do you think I could just eliminate that code <h2>By <span style=”color:#0066FF”><?php the_author() ?> <?php if(function_exists(‘the_views’)) { the_views(); } ?></span></h2>
from the index php file and just put my name on the top of each post as they are done on home page?
What was the error? I may have tossed in an extra semi-colon…
<?php if (is_home()) {
the_author() ?>
} ?>
Thread Starter
al-c
(@al-c)
I’ll put in the code again and let you know
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al-c
(@al-c)
here is the error message
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENDWHILE in /home/nyres2/public_html/rhymesforalltimes/blog/wp-content/themes/skinbu/index.php on line 19
here is how the index php is coded
<?php get_header(); ?>
<!– LEFTBAR –>
<div id=”leftbar”>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div id=”post”>
<h1>“><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<h2>By <span style=”color:#0066FF”><?php if (is_home()) {
the_author() ?>
} ?><?php if(function_exists(‘the_views’)) { the_views(); } ?></span></h2>
<div id=”postcontent”><p> <?php the_content(”); ?> </p></div>
Thread Starter
al-c
(@al-c)
Chris,
somehow, I fixed it by going to page.php with original code
<h2>By <span style=”color:#0066FF”><?php the_author() ?> <?php if(function_exists(‘the_views’)) { the_views(); } ?></span></h2>
I put <!– before code and –> after code and now it shows just as I wanted it with Author only showing on home page.
Thank you very much and am sure will benefit from your help in future as still have a few unresolved issues but tortured you enough tonite.
