Using a switch statement in WordPress

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1. If you wanted to use your switch statement, you could use:

   switch ($post->post_name){
       case 'home':
           $content = 'How much money....';
           break;
       case 'about':
           $content = 'We design....';
           break;
       case 'services':
           $content = 'At the....';
           break;
       case 'blog':
           $content = 'Find out whats....';
           break;
       case 'portfolio':
           $content = 'Unique, Beautiful....';
           break;
       case 'contact':
           $content = 'Get in touch to....';
           break;
       case 'privacy-policy':
           $content = 'How much money....';
           break;
       case 'terms-and-conditions':
           $content = 'How much....';
           break;      
   }
   
   echo '<div class="strapline strap">'.$content.'</div>';
   

   First. I would follow @rrikesh approach of using if/else and use is_page() correctly.

   But this code is really inefficient. If you can do an “is_page()” test, then you are on the page, and have access to it’s content. Personally, I would add a custom field to the pages to hold $content. Then on the pages, you can simply call the custom field

   $content = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'content', true);
   echo '<div class="strapline strap">'.$content.'</div>';
   

   You can use a free plugin like Advanced Custom Fields to quickly add a custom meta field to your pages and your content is easier to organize and edit later.

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2. I guess you should use if and else instead of a switch.

   is_page will just check if you are on a page and will return true or false. It will not return your page name.

   What you need to do:

   if ( is_page('Home') ){
     #do home stuff
   }
   elseif( is_page ('about') ){
     #do other stuff
   }
   elseif( is_page('services'){
     #do services stuff
   }
   

   Look at is_page for parameters you can pass.

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3. is_page() is a boolean function, it only returns true or false.

   You might find using $page = get_the_title() a reasonable alternative.

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