have element display ONLY on first page of posts

Try:

<?php if (is_front_page() && !is_paged() ){ ?>
<p>Home Page</p>
<?php else { ?>
<p>Not Home Page</p>
<?php } ?>
?>

Hi esmi,

Thanks for your response. Seems like it throws an error when I insert that chunk in my index.php. Could’ve sworn it didn’t break the page yesterday.

I am inserting it right after the <?php endwhile; ?> tag, but before the <?php else : ?> … and this is where I get the error, an unexpected T_ELSE.

I’m sure there’s something really straight-forward I am overlooking. Any hints?

also would it be advisable to do something even simpler, such as:

<?php if (is_front_page() && !is_paged()) {
		echo 'blah blah';
	} endif; ?>

I tried this and received the same T_ELSE error.

Thanks again.

Typo copied over from your original code. Try

<?php if (is_front_page() && !is_paged() ){ ?>
<p>Home Page</p>
<?php else { ?>
<p>Not Home Page</p>
<?php } ?>

Forgot to mention that I found that error and already omitted it. Still getting the same T_ELSE error.

Here is my index.php, if this helps:

<?php
/**
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage BlahBlah
 */

get_header(); ?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

		<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<h2><span class="rtfb"><?php if (function_exists('tweetmeme')) echo tweetmeme();?><?php //echo facebook_sharecount(); ?></span><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
			<p class="date"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></p>
			<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>

			<div class="postFooter">
				<p><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>
			</div><!-- postFooter -->
		</div><!-- post post post -->

	<?php endwhile; ?>

	<?php SEO_pager() ?>

<?php else : ?>

	<h2>Not Found</h2>
	<p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
		<div id="search">
			<?php get_search_form(); ?>
		</div><!-- search -->

<?php endif; ?>

</div><!-- contentMain -->
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

I’m trying to insert this if statement between the endwhile and the call to seo_pager.

Try:

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php if( is_front_page() && !is_paged() ) : ?>
<p>Home Page</p>

<?php else : ?>
<p>Not Home Page</p>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php SEO_pager() ?>

Thanks, this works perfectly.
I wanted to show slideshow only on homepage, but was getting error.

Brilliant. Thanks for your help.

After some further testing, I noticed this works on pages and single post pages, but if on the regular timeline and going through previous pages (https://example.com/page/2/, https://example.com/page/3/, etc.), it does not apply.

Is there a way to get this to apply to previous pages on the timeline?

Thanks again.

Just checking in, anyone have ideas on this issue? I feel like it’s so straight-forward but I haven’t been able to find an answer that works. Thanks.