How do I identify a page in Wordpress?

[KennPoint]

Hey gang,

I'm customizing wordpress and I created stated pages.

One page I created is called blog, to be seen as a subpage
of the website.

FOr this page I want to create a different header and
in my template, I want to identify that this is the page
I'm using for my blog (ie posts page).

How can i identify this page as my blog page? (posts page)?

Incidentally, the $post->post_name is giving me the slug "hello-world"
for the first post ... what I really want to know is that the page is
my blog page.

Understand my question? Got an answer?

(thanks!!!!!)

[bradical1379]

if ( is_page('page-name') ) {

}

[a2K]

Couldn't you just use $_SERVER['SCRIPT_URI'] and say if that == (your site url) then do whatever you need to do? (I THINK thats how you check the current URL via PHP?

[KennPoint]

Brad, that's a good idea, except there's a little more to the story...

What I did was create a page and designated that page as the blog and as a result the title of the page is the title of the first post in the blog which will change over time.

What I want to do is identify this page as the blog and change the header for this page.

So what I want to do is to be able to identify this page as the blog page within the php.

Any ideas?

thanks!!!

[KennPoint]

Well, the "page slug" actually stays the same on the blog page, perhaps i can recognize this ...

any idea offhand what the variable that holds the page slug name is?

[KennPoint]

For what it's worth, what i did was to use

if ( ! (is_page) )

to help me identify if the page "is a blog page", i did a check to
see if it "isn't a static page" which most of my site is.


I bet it's just confusing to anyone

Thanks for the support!

[CWebguy]

Check out
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

Look for page specific tags.

Cheers,