Title: is_front?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# is_front?

 *  [patrickw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrickw/)
 * (@patrickw)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is_front/)
 * Is there some sort of template tag that I can use to detect if the current page
   that was requested is the home page?
 * like
 * `<? if(is_front()) { ?>
    Frontpage content <? } else { ?> The loop <? } ?>

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 *  [jalenack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jalenack/)
 * (@jalenack)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is_front/#post-362240)
 * If I’m not mistaken, you can use `is_home()`
 *  [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is_front/#post-362243)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags)

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## Tags

 * [front](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/front/)
 * [home](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/home/)
 * [loop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/loop/)
 * [tag](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tag/)

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 * Last reply from: [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is_front/#post-362243)
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