What are the different ways to detect home page in wordpress?

Question

What are the different ways to detect wordpress homepage

except is_front_page() and is_home()

Thanks

Solution 1

is_front_page() is what you want.

I assume, by the fact that is_home() is not working, that your home page is static, according to the settings in wp-admin.

is_home() returns true on your main blog page whereas is_front_page() returns true on which ever page is defined as your front page, feed or not.

From codex:

This Conditional Tag checks if the main page is a posts or a Page. This is a boolean function, meaning it returns either TRUE or FALSE. It returns TRUE when the main blog page is being displayed and the Settings->Reading->Front page displays is set to "Your latest posts", or when is set to "A static page" and the "Front Page" value is the current Page being displayed.

Solution 2

I just do the following:

if ( $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] == '/' ) { }

It works and doesn't overcomplicate things, especially as is_front_page() and is_home() don't always work as you'd expect them to.

Solution 3

With Twenty Ten I use:

<?php
 if ( $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] == '/' ) { ?>
   <h1 class="site-title"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></h1>
   <h2 class="site-description"><?php bloginfo( 'description' ); ?></h2>
<?php
} else { ?>
   <p class="site-title"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></p>
   <p class="site-description"><?php bloginfo( 'description' ); ?></p>
<?php } ?>

Works like a charm... $_SERVER is the one I always use and it always works.

Solution 4

from outside the loop:

if(get_option("page_on_front") == $post->ID){
    //do front page stuff here
}

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Comments

[Ikram Hawramani]

This seems to be the only check that works reliably if you have a category as the front page.

[Eric K]

I was also able to use this approach in the WP admin since is_front_page() won't work there.

[LaZza]

this method worked great for me - is_front_page() and is_home() had no effect as I didnt have a static page set as the home page, just a list of recent posts

[axew3]

what about with this solution, if WP is installed into a subfolder? localhost/wp