How to omit a header on a WordPress page?

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Really helpful ideas. I am looking into these suggestions and will come back here later today.

Thank you, friends.

Eric

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Hi again.

First -- happy new year. I hope you are all out celebrating with friends and family.

When you get back, I could use a little more help. I am not sure what to adjust in my header.php file. I copy my header.php file, below, in full. My problem is -- I don't see any place in the header.php file that invokes the page title. Am I just missing something? Thank you for your help, again.

Eric

<?php
/**
 * The Header for our theme
 *
 * Displays all of the <head> section and everything up till <div id="main">
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Fourteen
 * @since Twenty Fourteen 1.0
 */
?><!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if IE 7]>
<html class="ie ie7" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]>
<html class="ie ie8" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if !(IE 7) | !(IE 8) ]><!-->
<html <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<!--<![endif]-->
<head>
	<meta charset="<?php bloginfo( 'charset' ); ?>">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
	<title><?php wp_title( '|', true, 'right' ); ?></title>
	<link rel="profile" href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
	<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo( 'pingback_url' ); ?>">
	<!--[if lt IE 9]>
	<script src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/js/html5.js"></script>
	<![endif]-->
	<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>

<body <?php body_class(); ?>>
<div id="page" class="hfeed site">
	<?php if ( get_header_image() ) : ?>
	<div id="site-header">
		<a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>" rel="home">
			<img src="<?php header_image(); ?>" width="<?php echo get_custom_header()->width; ?>" height="<?php echo get_custom_header()->height; ?>" alt="">
		</a>
	</div>
	<?php endif; ?>

	<header id="masthead" class="site-header" role="banner">
		<div class="header-main">
			<h1 class="site-title"><a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a></h1>

			<div class="search-toggle">
				<a href="#search-container" class="screen-reader-text"><?php _e( 'Search', 'twentyfourteen' ); ?></a>
			</div>

			<nav id="primary-navigation" class="site-navigation primary-navigation" role="navigation">
				<h1 class="menu-toggle"><?php _e( 'Primary Menu', 'twentyfourteen' ); ?></h1>
				<a class="screen-reader-text skip-link" href="#content"><?php _e( 'Skip to content', 'twentyfourteen' ); ?></a>
				<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'primary', 'menu_class' => 'nav-menu' ) ); ?>
			</nav>
		</div>

		<div id="search-container" class="search-box-wrapper hide">
			<div class="search-box">
				<?php get_search_form(); ?>
			</div>
		</div>
	</header><!-- #masthead -->

	<div id="main" class="site-main">

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Making progress.

At line 45 I did:

<?php if (!is_front_page()) { ?><h1 class="site-title"><a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a></h1><?php } ?>

But the <h1>Home</h1> is still there. In page source, the markup looks like:

<header class="entry-header"><h1 class="entry-title">Home</h1></header>

I am studying the syntax of the statement

<?php if (!is_front_page()) { ?><h1 class="site-title"><a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a></h1><?php } ?>

(I am coming to this from a ColdFusion perspective, so I have to really adjust my thinking.)

It looks like the statement is saying: If this is the front page, then apply H1 and class "site-title" but remove text between the <a href> and </a> tags.

I wonder if the condition if (!is_front_page()) is being recognized?

Thank you again for your time and patience. No hurry with this task -- it is not urgent.

Eric

What it is actually saying, if this page is NOT ( ! ) the front page, emit everything inside this conditional statement. Ignore the other php code inside the conditional. That's just standard WordPress code.

Is it possible that what you are calling the home page is not actually the home page. In WP, the home page is the one that loads when no query is offered in the URL.

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>>>What it is actually saying, if this page is NOT ( ! ) the front page, emit everything inside this conditional statement. Ignore the other php code inside the conditional. That's just standard WordPress code.

Hmm. So this:

<?php if (!is_front_page()) { ?

means "if this page IS NOT". Does the "!" exclamation point mean "IS NOT"?

Does this: <?php if (is_front_page()) { ?

mean "if this page is"?

Just curious. =)

>>>>Is it possible that what you are calling the home page is not actually the home page. In WP, the home page is the one that loads when no query is offered in the URL.

This is occurring on the base URL of the page -- no queries at all are offered in the URL.

I wonder if I need to adjust this conditional statement to say:

IF this page is "is_front_page"

THEN omit the <h1>page</h1>

Also ... I notice that I might be editing the wrong template. I notice that

<header class="entry-header"><h1 class="entry-title">Home</h1></header>

occurs in template: content.php

but not in header.php.

Like so:

	<header class="entry-header">
		<?php if ( in_array( 'category', get_object_taxonomies( get_post_type() ) ) && twentyfourteen_categorized_blog() ) : ?>
		<div class="entry-meta">
			<span class="cat-links"><?php echo get_the_category_list( _x( ', ', 'Used between list items, there is a space after the comma.', 'twentyfourteen' ) ); ?></span>
		</div>
		<?php
			endif;

			if ( is_single() ) :
				the_title( '<h1 class="entry-title">', '</h1>' );
			else :
				the_title( '<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="' . esc_url( get_permalink() ) . '" rel="bookmark">', '</a></h1>' );
			endif;
		?>

		<div class="entry-meta">
			<?php
				if ( 'post' == get_post_type() )
					twentyfourteen_posted_on();

				if ( ! post_password_required() && ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) ) :
			?>
			<span class="comments-link"><?php comments_popup_link( __( 'Leave a comment', 'twentyfourteen' ), __( '1 Comment', 'twentyfourteen' ), __( '% Comments', 'twentyfourteen' ) ); ?></span>
			<?php
				endif;

				edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'twentyfourteen' ), '<span class="edit-link">', '</span>' );
			?>
		</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
	</header><!-- .entry-header -->

So I wonder if I need to edit content.php.

I am continuing to experiment with this. Thank you again for your advice.

Eric

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tommyBoy,

Thank you for this. I really appreciate your patience.

Yes, I am using just the basic twentyfourteen theme for now. It is basic and simple and I am using it to "practice" operations like omitting the <h1>Home</h1> header on the front page.

So, you are confident that I should edit only header.php, and NOT edit content.php?

class="entry-title" shows up in content.php, not in header.php -- which is why I was looking at content.php as something I should maybe edit.

Also -- I am working on making a twentyfourteen child theme -- and I will do all of these updates in the template files of the child theme. I am following the instructions here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

I will set up the child theme and try again to edit line 45 of header.php per your note. Thank you again for your help. Hope your day is going well.

Eric

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Hi, tommyBoy,

My child theme is called twentyfourteen-child; so far it contains only:
header.php
content.php,
style.css

I have selected this theme in the WordPress dashboard, and it is working fine.

On line 45 of header.php, I tried:

<?php if (!is_front_page()) { ?><h1 class="site-title"><a href="<?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ); ?>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a></h1><?php } ?>

...but the <h1>Home</h1> remained.

I think I am missing something still. What do you think I could be doing wrong?

Thank you again for your help.

Eric

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Hi, tommyBoy,

Thank you very much for that helpful reply. You are making a lot of sense.

Here is the web site:

http://ebwebwork.com/

I used your masthead section for the header.php file ... as you can see in the web site.

In the style sheet in the child theme, I have only these lines:

/*
Theme Name: Twenty Fourteen Child
Template: twentyfourteen
Version: 0.1.0
*/

@import url("../twentyfourteen/style.css");

/* =Theme customization starts here
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

So, the TEST does show up in read. That works. But do you see the HOME, on the front page? I am trying to get rid of HOME. =)

So am I editing the right place in the correct template?

Eric

You are definitely editing the correct file, twentyfourteen-child/header.php, in order to change the original site title on the front page to a red "TEST".

The word "HOME" however, that appears on your front page, is the title of a post. No need to get your hands dirty in the Wordpress PHP coding morass to edit that. Just go to Posts --> All Posts in your Dashboard and look for the one titled "Home" and click Edit. Remove the "Home" title and leave it blank, click Update.

I hope you don't mind that we went all the way around the world, digging deep into Wordpress code, just to meet at the coffee shop that was twenty feet away (figuratively speaking).

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tommyBoy,

Actually, "Home" is a page, not a post. There are no posts at all on this web site. Home, About, Services, and so on ... those are all pages.

It looks like the "Home" is generated in the content.php template ... does that sound right?

Eric

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tommyBoy,

I find that if I edit content-page.php, that seems to affect the HOME and other page titles.

I am going to try to apply the IF-THEN statement to content-page.php.

Do you think I am going down the right path here? Or to heck in a handbasket? =)

Eric

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This solution worked like a charm. Thanks very much to tommyBoy for patient and expert help. I understand the solution -- and I understand the roundabout way that we got there. I will be more careful to define my terms when I post a question in EE. =)

Thank you again, and take care.

Eric