wordpress if statement not responding

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The website I am working on has a different footer on the home page to all the other pages on the site.
However the footer does not appear on any of the pages at all.
here is the code I am using: 

<?php if ( is_home() ) {
    // This is a homepage 
?>

    <div id="footer"> This is home page</div>

<? } else {   ?> 

    <div id="footer">This is not a homepage</div> 

<?}?>

Is my syntax wrong? Why doesn’t this code work?

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Thank you all in advance.

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3 comments

  1. 2 things I can think of here:

    1. You are using a static front page. In this case you will need to check for is_front_page()
    2. Using <?php open tags

    Consider revising the code to following:

    <?php if ( is_home() || is_front_page()) { ?>
    // This is a homepage 
    <div id="footer"> This is home page</div>
<?php } else {   ?> 
    <div id="footer">This is not a homepage</div> 
<?php } ?>

  2. Unless you’re using an old version of php, you might want to switch <? } else { ?> to <?php } else { ?> – note that I’m using a <?php instead of just <?.

    As for the is_home(), you might want to read up on the following link: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_home

    It seems as if is_home() sometimes isn’t the same thing as is_frontpage(), which means that you in some cases need to use is_frontpage() instead.

    Good luck!

  3. Using <?php open tags is one of the “best practices” in WordPress coding. Also, consider using <?php get_footer('footer-variant') ?> instead of conditional statements in your footer.php. After calling get_footer('my-footer'), footer-my-footer.php file will be used.