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is_page() not working properly

Posted on 2012-12-20

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Hi,

I have a wordpress site with WooCommerce and I am trying to display a banner on the main shop page.

I have added the following code to the wrapper-start.php (the shop loop's wrapper).

In the beginning is_page didn't work at all and didn't show the banner, and when I used is_archive it worked, but appeared on all pages with products on them and not just the main shop page. I found a post here that said to add wp_reset_query and use is_page. Now is_page is showing the banner but again, it shows up on all pages (like this one when I want it to show up only on the main /shop page.

Here is the code I have:

<?php wp_reset_query();
	if (!is_page('Shop')) {
	echo do_shortcode("[lbg_kenburnsslider settings_id='2']");
	}
	?>

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Please advise.

Thanks

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Question by:James-Wise

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by:Jason C. Levine

ID: 387119502012-12-20

I am trying to display a banner on the main shop page.

So that would imply you want the banner on shop and not elsewhere?

if (!is_page('Shop'))

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Would put the banner everywhere not with a title of 'Shop'

If you meant to use the slug, it would have been:

if (!is_page('shop')) {
	echo do_shortcode("[lbg_kenburnsslider settings_id='2']");
	}

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Given that a lot of people get confused by this, I always prefer to use the ID:

if (!is_page(20)) {
	echo do_shortcode("[lbg_kenburnsslider settings_id='2']");
	}

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Finally, are you sure you want to be using ! here?

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by:James-Wise

ID: 387145802012-12-21

so i need to remove the ! before is_page, otherwise it is not?

That didn't work. (or is that not what you meant?)

Also does this page have an ID if it is a generated page, basically an archive page? if it does, how do I find what the ID is?

Thanks

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by:Jason C. Levine

Jason C. Levine earned 500 total points

ID: 387146252012-12-21

so i need to remove the ! before is_page, otherwise it is not?

Yes. The ! in PHP is a not indicator.

Also does this page have an ID if it is a generated page, basically an archive page?

Not really, but it's also not a page then. WordPress pages are created through the Pages menu using a page template and only then will is_page() work as expected. If this is an archive, then is_archive() is the correct test.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_archive

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by:James-Wise

James-Wise earned 0 total points

ID: 387148912012-12-21

Well it seems is_archive() doesn't take parameters so all those pages return true.

But after digging in woocommerce codex I found that they have created an is_shop for the main shop page. that worked.

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by:James-Wise

ID: 387209502012-12-26

Thanks again for the help! I learned a good bunch.

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