Tag: Site Description

This code enables you to use any conditional tag to change the site description which some people refer to as the tagline. In this example, the site description is changed on one specific single page named Demo. The slug for this page is demo however you could also use the page id.

Here’s the part of the code which controls which page the site description is modified.

is_page( 'demo' )

You can replace this conditional with any other to target specific pages, posts, archives etc.

Here’s the demo video showing a very simple example of how the site description is modified on the page named Demo.

Demo Video

Shows a custom site description when the demo page is loaded.

Note : The code also enables you to modify the site description on all/any single posts/pages, blog listings page, author, category, search, and tag archive page types. Support for this is included for registered users.

Code Installation

There’s only 1 step :

From the download folder, copy & paste the PHP code to the end of your child themes functions file.

Register or login to access the code in the download folder :

This code enables you to display a widgets content after the site title conditionally.

In this example, it only displays the widgets content ( search widget ) on any page using the landing page template.

You can easily change the conditional tag to return a different result:

Simply add the following PHP code to the end of your child themes functions.php file.

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This PHP code enables you to show your logo on top of your site description/tagline.

Simply upload your logo to your child themes images folder.

Copy the PHP code from the view raw link in the Gist and paste it at the end of your child themes functions.php file.

The code assumes your image is named logo.png otherwise change the path to your image in the code.

Both these code snippets include a conditional tag which removes the site description from the front page.

You can modifiy, replace or add to the conditional tag based on your own needs.

Alternatively, you could also use code like this to return something else conditionally. In this example it simply returns the description.

If you prefer using CSS code, you can grab the post/page i.d or template class from the body classes in your source code and use it in a new rule like this:

.home .site-description {
display: none;
}

In this tutorial, i’ll provide the PHP and CSS code you can use or modify to make your sites description clickable.

All you need to do is hook in a new tagline with link and add some styling.

Please paste this code at the end of your child themes functions.php file.

remove_action( 'genesis_site_description', 'genesis_seo_site_description' );

function custom_site_description() { 
    echo '<div class="custom-description"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://yourdomain.com/link/">Add Your Site Description Here</p></div>';
};

add_action( 'genesis_site_description', 'custom_site_description' );

Remove the HTML from the code that centers the text if needed.

<p style="text-align: center;">

You can easily create a description in a new post draft and even center and style it before adding it to the above code. Or add all the styling using CSS.

Next step is to add some styling.

.custom-description {
    font-family: 'Oswald',arial,serif;
    font-size: 24px;
    font-weight: normal;
    margin: 0;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #070707;
}

This CSS uses a custom Google font named Oswald which you’ll need to add to your child themes functions.php file using some PHP code.

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'wpsites_load_google_font' );
function wpsites_load_google_font() {
	wp_enqueue_style( 'google-font', 'http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald:400', array(), CHILD_THEME_VERSION );
}

Grab your own web font from Google and replace the url in the PHP code above to suit your style.

Filter Site Description & Add Link

You can also use the genesis_seo_description filter to modify the output of the default description and add a link to any url.

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