About "Conditional" Tags

"Conditional"  tags enable us to dictate the type of page in which the enclosed content can be displayed. They are really quite useful in many ways. Conditional tags are basically coding statements.

With any condition you have a true, false and equal value.

Example:

Sunday is a weekend!

That statement is true!

The basic variables you would see in a conditional statement are:

==     Equal to.
!=       Not Equal to.
===   Exactly Equal to.

There are more but those are the basics that you will use for most conditional statements.

If we were to write a conditional statement into a text sentence it may looks something like this.

If today is Sunday I will go to church.

This is a conditional statement saying "I will go to church if today is Sunday".

This condition is "If today is Sunday"
The action if the condition is true (met) is "I will go to church".  

I could also write it like this below.

Day of week == Sunday
I will go to church.

 However this is not a proper code to put in your template because statements need to be recognized and day of week and Sunday are not recognized without more coding to retrieve the date from the users computer.

Their are universal codes and tags that will be recognized without any farther coding needed. I will go over a few below.

I have equal to variables in all these below but they can be changed to !=  (Not Equal) as well.

• Homepage

In this example we will restrict the content with in the "conditional" tag to display only on the homepage. This conditional tag does not work with the Not Equal (!=) tag.

<b:if cond='"data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl"'>
<style>
<--Content to be displayed on homepage only -->
</style>
</b:if>


•  Static Pages

In this example we will restrict the content with in the "conditional" tag to display only on the Static Pages.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "static_page"'>
<style>
<--Content to be displayed on static pages only -->
</style>
</b:if>


•  Post Pages

In this example we will restrict the content with in the "conditional" tag to display only on the Post Pages.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<style>
<--Content to be displayed on static pages only -->
</style>
</b:if>


•  Specified Page

In this example we will restrict the content with in the "conditional" tag to display only on the Specified Pages.

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "Blog Post URL"'>
<style>
<--Content to be displayed on specified page only -->
</style>
</b:if>


(In the example above you must fill in the Blog Post URL with the URL of the page or post your choosing.)

Learn About Conditional "Else" Tags.