Comments on: A Quick Wordpress Function to Add a Dynamic Body Id/Class to Your Theme

By: Nils

Nils — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:18:09 +0000

@Jeremy -
So the way i asked does work great, thank you.

And the ‘is_page’ function specifically looks for this:
is_page(‘about-me’)
When the Page with a post_name (slug) of “about-me” is being displayed.

This is the function that i made with your tutorial and help.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:51:46 +0000

@Christy Glad to hear it works and glad I could help out. I was pretty certain it would work but as I said it was untested so thanks for dropping by and letting me know.

By: Christy

Christy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:31:59 +0000

The last comment #5 was exactly what I was looking for. And it works perfectly. Thank you!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:18:31 +0000

@Nils – Good question, you could either use the given name of the page like this:
if is_page(‘page-name’)
or you could use the page ID like this:
if is_page(‘12′)
or I believe you could use the to check for a specific template
if is_page_template(‘extra-page.php’)
For more information on WordPress Conditional Tags check this page http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags and let me know what works for you as I do not actually have the time to test that right now, but I believe that is what you are looking for.

By: Nils

Nils — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:58:35 +0000

I was just wondering how you would apply this with custom page templates.

So if i added a custom page template called “extra page”, what wordpress functions would i use to search specific pages?

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:47:05 +0000

Jeremy, this is a clever approach. An idea like this just might be a foundation for a plugin that allows WP sites to have a “theme switcher”… for example, to allow users to click on an accessibility link that would alter a site’s theme with enhanced contrast and larger font size. Just an idea.

I also noticed that you mentioned you have very little free time in posting your thisdayindesign post. Are you in need of extra WP coding hands??

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:22:47 +0000

No problem, glad I could offer the idea. I did it the other way for quite a while which is just as useful but as I have started to use this quite a bit more often I finally realized it just made sense to drop it in the functions file, keeps it a bit more organized especially if you are using more than #home and #single. Nice thing is that it is now pretty portable and easy to use on the next project.

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:39:55 +0000

I was doing this the “hard way”, and never thought of using a function..
Thanks for the tip!