eldeuce

wow, this plugin looks like it would have worked. Too bad for them because I left that job and now they’ll never know. 🙂

the get_template_directory() was ace!

thanks for the help, again!! 😀

Your code leaves me with

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<' in /homepages/6/d214241798/htdocs/3dss/wp-content/themes/3dss/index.php on line 17

if I change it to

if (is_page('3')) {
      include (bloginfo('template_directory').'/mail.php');
    }

then at least the site shows up but I get

Warning: main(/mail.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/6/d214241798/htdocs/3dss/wp-content/themes/3dss/index.php on line 17

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening '/mail.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /homepages/6/d214241798/htdocs/3dss/wp-content/themes/3dss/index.php on line 17

I keep talking too soon.
Once I change the else statement to your way of writing it, it stops doing the correct header for the home page, now ever the home page has the secondary header.

….

<?php
    if (is_home()) {
      echo '<h2 id="idxhdr">Home Page</h2> ';
    } else {
      echo '<h2>';
      the_title();
      echo '</h2>';
    }
    ?>

Maybe I spoke too soon.
I have

<?php
    if (is_home()) {
      echo '<h2 id="idxhdr">Welcome to the site</h2> ;
    } else {
      echo '<h2>' . the_title() . '</h2>';
    }
    ?>

but when it parses, i get

Page Title<h2></h2>

Any idea what I did wrong?