Want to exclude slider from page.php in header

Question

I know this is a dumb question, but for the love of my life, I can't get the code to work. I have three page templates: home, page and another page-by category. I have a slider that I want to excluded from the default page.php file but to show everywhere else. I have tried to do this with is_page_template , but that isn't working. any help will be much appreciated. I'm not sure if you need my header code. If you do then leave a comment please and I'll paste in in pastebin. Thanks a lot in advance.

Answer 1

Did you consult the is_page_template() Codex entry?

If you want to query for the page.php page template, then you need to pass that filename to is_page_template(); i.e.:

<?php
if ( ! is_page_template( 'page.php' ) ) {
    // The current page template is NOT page.php;
    // do something
}
?>

Sidenote: if you want to query for being a static page AND not a specific page template:

<?php
if ( is_page() && ! is_page_template( 'page.php' ) ) {
    // Current page is a static page AND
    // The current page template is NOT page.php;
    // do something
}
?>