is_home()

Determines if the query is for the blog homepage.

Description

The blog homepage is the page that shows the time-based blog content of the site.

is_home() is dependent on the site’s "Front page displays" Reading Settings ‘show_on_front’ and ‘page_for_posts’.

If a static page is set for the front page of the site, this function will return true only on the page you set as the "Posts page".

Return

(bool) True if blog view homepage, otherwise false.

Source

File: wp-includes/query.php

function is_home() {
	global $wp_query;

	if ( ! isset( $wp_query ) ) {
		_doing_it_wrong( __FUNCTION__, __( 'Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. Before then, they always return false.' ), 'WP-3.1.0' );
		return false;
	}

	return $wp_query->is_home();
}

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Uses

Uses
Uses	Description
wp-includes/l10n.php: __()	Retrieve the translation of $text.
wp-includes/class-wp-query.php: WP_Query::is_home()	Is the query for the blog homepage?
wp-includes/functions.php: _doing_it_wrong()	Mark something as being incorrectly called.

Used By

Used By
Used By	Description
wp-includes/general-template.php: wp_title()	Display or retrieve page title for all areas of blog.
wp-includes/general-template.php: wp_get_document_title()	Returns document title for the current page.
wp-includes/post-template.php: get_post_class()	Retrieves the classes for the post div as an array.
wp-includes/post-template.php: get_body_class()	Retrieve the classes for the body element as an array.
wp-includes/canonical.php: redirect_canonical()	Redirects incoming links to the proper URL based on the site url.
wp-includes/class-wp.php: WP::handle_404()	Set the Headers for 404, if nothing is found for requested URL.

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Changelog

Changelog
Version	Description
WP-1.5.0	Introduced.