http://mycyc.com/forum/ The Teen Forums - Chat and more Tag: conditional tags en Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:34:12 +0000 http://mycyc.com/forum/topic/wordpress-more-on-conditional-tags#post-579 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:25:34 +0000 admin 579@http://mycyc.com/forum/ <p>Conditional tags are great, they are like PHPs built in if/else statements but can have more specific conditions. With conditional tags you can control what content is displayed based on whether or not the conditions have been met.</p> <p>For e.g. you want to write a page about how to contact you, however you only want the link to the contact page to be displayed on your homepage, you could then wrap the link in a is_home(); condition tag.<br /> <strong><u>Types Of conditional Tags</u></strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>is_home()</strong> - when the blogs main page is being displayed, if you want something on your homepage only, use this tag.</li> <li><strong>is_frontpage()</strong> - when the front of your blog is displayed (based on your settings in options &gt; reading).</li> <li><strong>is_single()</strong> - when a single post is being displayed, if you want something that shows alongside single posts only, use this tag.</li> <li><strong>comments_open()</strong> - when comments for the current post are allowed.</li> <li><strong>pings_open()</strong> - when pings/trackbacks for the current post are allowed.</li> <li><strong>is_page()</strong> - when any page is being displayed.</li> <li><strong>is_category()</strong> - when any category archive is being displayed, want something that only shows in category archives? use this tag.</li> <li><strong>is_tag()</strong> - when the tag archive is being displayed.</li> <li><strong>is_author</strong> - when the author page is being displayed, want to personalise your author pages? use this tag.</li> <li><strong>is_search</strong> - when a search results page is displayed.</li> <li><strong>!empty($post-&gt;post_excerpt)</strong> - when a post is using an <a href="http://mycyc.com/blogging-tips-using-the-optional-excerpt-in-wordpress/">optional excerpt</a>.</li> <li><strong>empty($post-&gt;post_excerpt)</strong> - when a post is not using an option excerpt.</li> </ul> <p>There are a few more that can be used, i just listed the more common ones. </p>