custom headers for static home page and posts page

Question

have a site w/a static home page and a posts page and then a number of other static pages - i set up a custom header for the home page and then another all other pages like this in the header

<?php
if(is_home()){
include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/header_front.php');}

else {
include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/header_default.php');}

?>

it works perfectly except that the posts page is displaying header_front.php instead of header_default.php

so i guess im asking how i get wordpress to realize that the posts page isnt the home page

Answer 1

Instead of using include(TEMPLATEPATH use the built in WordPress API.

The WordPress API accommodates for using different headers.

<?php 
       if (is_front_page() ) {
               get_header( 'front' );

        } else {
               get_header();
       }
?>

Your custom header template should be named header-front.php and your default header should be named header.php

Answer 2

ok so i guess there was some code in the template for the home page that i c&ped off some site that was making wordpress think it was the blog page - once i excised that and then did is_front_page() everything was cool - so thx

this is the code if anyone might be at all interested - i was under the impression it was necessary to designate a template - obvs theres a bunch of extra stuff in there tho

<?php
/*
Template Name: blog
*/
$pagenum = $wp_query->query_vars;
$pagenum = $pagenum['paged'];

if (empty($pagenum)) {
$pagenum = 1;
}

query_posts("posts_per_page=10&paged=$pagenum");
?>