[Support request] HTML tag of main title

[Adrian]

Hi Tom,

on my website I want to use the H1 tag for the main title when the front page is shown, and the P tag when another page is shown. For SEO reasons.

I created a child theme to accomplish the same, but then came across the following code, from which I see your theme already has this feature built in:

file: /inc/template_tags.php

<?php if ( false == $disable_title ) : ?>
<?php if ( is_front_page() && is_home() ) : ?>
<h1 class=”main-title” itemprop=”headline”>” rel=”home”><?php bloginfo( ‘name’ ); ?></h1>
<?php else : ?>
<p class=”main-title” itemprop=”headline”>” rel=”home”><?php bloginfo( ‘name’ ); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

Strangely enough, on my website the P tag is used on the front page as well. I am using Generatepress in its normal configuration, with the site title shown in the header.
So is_front_page() is true, but why do you check is_home()? It applies to blogs only, if I understand the documentation correctly.

Once I remove is_home() the functionality works as desired.

Thanks Tom

Adrian

[Tom]

This is because regular pages already have an H1, your page title.

The blog (is_home()) doesn’t have a page title, so we use the site title.

If you’re using a static front page, then you should already have an H1, and don’t need/shouldn’t have your site title as an H1.

Let me know if you need more info 🙂

[Author]

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