Creating a post-specific sidebar

jayeff · 2007-05-09, 06:42 PM

The is_home function works very nicely in the sidebar. It used to work on pages themselves too and anyone looking around the codex is likely to find references to that functionality.

However, somewhere in the last couple of versions of WP, it stopped working except in the sidebar, so if anyone wants to do on a page, what you have done on your sidebar, the solution now is:

Code:

<?php if ($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] == '') { ?>
...whatever you want to display
<?php } ?>

This will identify your home page, because when you are on the home page, your address bar will read simply http://www.yourdomain.com/ or similar. That matches the empty query string condition. As you navigate around your site, even if you are displaying user-/se-friendly URL's, WordPress is actually translating the default ?=page6 or whatever. In other words the query string would not be empty.

With that knowledge and a little native cunning, you can adapt this code to put content on other specific pages too...

2007-05-09, 06:42 PM	#3
jayeff Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand! Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 95	The is_home function works very nicely in the sidebar. It used to work on pages themselves too and anyone looking around the codex is likely to find references to that functionality. However, somewhere in the last couple of versions of WP, it stopped working except in the sidebar, so if anyone wants to do on a page, what you have done on your sidebar, the solution now is: Code: <?php if ($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] == '') { ?> ...whatever you want to display <?php } ?> This will identify your home page, because when you are on the home page, your address bar will read simply http://www.yourdomain.com/ or similar. That matches the empty query string condition. As you navigate around your site, even if you are displaying user-/se-friendly URL's, WordPress is actually translating the default ?=page6 or whatever. In other words the query string would not be empty. With that knowledge and a little native cunning, you can adapt this code to put content on other specific pages too...