Strapline for blog

  • Hi, I’ve just been building my site in WordPress, and have been busy designing my stylesheet (still a work in progress).
    I found one small problem straight off: WordPress didn’t offer me a chance to create a strapline (or sub-title) for my blog, so I had to hardwire it into my index.php
    It was only a small task, but it would have been nice to have it as part of the setup, so that I didn’t have to hardwire it into index.php, which feels a little crude

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  • Did you try this:
    <?php bloginfo('description'); ?>
    More can be found her in the Wiki
    TG

    Even still, many styles/templates don’t output the blog description — my one ‘published’ template I added that to the index.php as well.
    -d

    Thanks, got that now!
    Pity that it doesn’t seem to be used in the standard template ??
    Isn’t it also a bit silly that the “options” scren labels it “tagline”, but the template uses ‘description’ to access the same resource?

    I don’t know if I’d use the word “silly” but your point is well taken ??

    That’s because in a previous incarnation, it was called “description” and that’s what it is still called in the options table AFAIK. The label on the screen for it has changed, but the option name has remained the same.
    TG

    Sorry if I caused any offence by calling it “silly” — “confusing” might be a better word.
    Thanks for the explantion of what happened. The reaming makes sense, but wouldn’t it now make sense to standardise the wording, and allow
    <?php bloginfo('tagline'); ?>
    … with ‘description’ still remaining functional for legacy support?

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