Change Site Title and Description html tags if not home page

Question

For the purpose of good HTML structure, accessibility and SEO I'd like to change the site's title and description from H1 and H2 to P when appearing on any page other than the homepage. A conditional statement logic would be something like; when not homepage change site title and description to Site Title and Description

. Thanks!

Answer 1

<?php if (is_home() || is_front_page()) { $header_tag = 'h1'; }
    else { $header_tag = 'h2'; } ?>

<<?php echo $header_tag;?>><?php the_title();?></<?php echo $header_tag; ?>>

Expanding on what Stephen Harris said, here is a useable example. Lots of different ways to use same code function.

Answer 2

There are two conditionals, depending on your setup:

• is_home() - checks if the main page is being displayed
• is_front_page() - 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.