Comments on: How To: Use WordPress Conditional Tags to Hack Your Theme

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:04:51 +0000

Thanks! This is a great post. I would like to add about 30 conditional tags so that a difference sentence with 6 different links will appear on each different tag (i.e. tagged post will have a different sentence and set of links). Will this slow down my site?

By: Oris WilliamsF1

Oris WilliamsF1 — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 04:39:00 +0000

Thanks John! I’ve been burning hours trying to bring in a separate header for a static front page in WordPress 2.8 and this did the trick in a few minutes.

By: tatil yerleri

tatil yerleri — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:44:34 +0000

Great tips, they will definitely come in handy

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:52:02 +0000

This article has been a great help to this wp newbie!

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By: Russ Bryan

Russ Bryan — Sat, 08 May 2010 19:12:52 +0000

I have a featured content gallery that i only want to show up on my static home page. My theme has these templates:
404 Template (404.php)
Comments (comments.php)
Footer (footer.php)
Header (header.php)
Main Index Template (index.php)
Page Template (page.php)
Sidebar (sidebar.php)
Single Post (single.php)
Theme Functions (functions.php)

the code for the featured content gallery is this:

How would i use conditional tag to make it only show up on the static home page, and one which template file would it go.

Thanks,

By: Dana

Dana — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:56:09 +0000

Great article John… but there is a code error that I think may be throwing people off. In the early examples where you use OR to add multiple conditions, the closing parentheses, on the right, was missing (just before the curly bracket and ?) so the code didn’t work. it’s an easy thing to miss!. It should look like this :

if (is_home() || is_category() || is_page()) { ?>

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:59:31 +0000

Will be modifying a plugin to act differently on category pages on the sidebar.. hopefully the is_category() will help.. thanks

By: k.roussi

k.roussi — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:07:13 +0000

This was what I needed. I didn’t have to search more than 2 links to find everything all on your site! Thanks