how to show image only on homepage (blog page)

<?php if( is_home() ) :?>
[ image markup ]
<?php endif;?>

Just the image? No copy? Create and use a static page and you can put whatever you want on it.

esmi, sorry to be such a noob – where do I place that, in index.php? header.php? I see the image referenced in my css file but that’s it.

kmessinger, thanks – let me explore this route before tackling static pages.

Ed

From what I can see, the image is in a few template files. In index.php, you could try:

<?php if( is_home() ) :?>
<div class="slogan">
<div class="slogan-indent"></div>
</div>
<?php endif;?>

In single.php and any other template file that contains:

<div class="slogan">
<div class="slogan-indent"></div>
</div>

just try removing that markup.

I added that code to index.php.

And removed (from sidebar-2.php) this:

<div class="column-center">

		<div class="slogan">
			<div class="slogan-indent">
				<h2><img alt="" src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/header-text.gif" /></h2>
				<p><a href="#"><img alt="" src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/button-join.gif" /></a></p>
			</div>
		</div>

(disregard the header-text.gif and button-join.gif images, they aren’t used)

and got this. Getting closer but placement is messed up – does that have something to do with the <div class=”column-center”> in sidebar-2.php?

Replace <div class="column-center"> in sidebar-2.php.

Sorry I highlighted too much in previous post – I only removed <div class="slogan"> and below. I did leave <div class="column-center"> there, it’s the last thing you see in sidebar-2.php.

Have you edited the CSS at all. It seems to me that .column-center is missing a background color.

I haven’t edited any portion of the CSS that would affect that – why do you say that?

esmi we’re almost there… I appreciate your help. Now that we’ve managed to get the image to show only on the homepage, how can I get it to show in the center column? I left the <div class="column-center"> in sidebar-2.php as you stated.

Thanks,
Ed

why do you say that?

I could have sworn that the center column had a light background similar to the 2 sidebars. Maybe I’m getting my sites confused? ??

Try editing style.css and adding:

margin: 0 auto;
width: 489px;

to:

.slogan {
    background: url("images/header.jpg") no-repeat;
    clear: both;
    height: 214px;
}

Did it!

I just moved `<?php if( is_home() ) :?>
<div class=”slogan”>
<div class=”slogan-indent”></div>
</div>
<?php endif;?>` from index.php to sidebar-2.php.

esmi THANK YOU for your help, couldn’t have done it without you.

Cheers,
Ed