How to differentiate Front page and other pages in Wordpress?

Question

I have created a front page (i.e index.php) with my own design. This page will contain

• header got from <?php get_header(); ?> [has navigation bar code]
• Then some content. Here I'm showing three thumbnails of posts. [has slider, thumbnail posts etc]
• And a footer from <?php get_footer(); ?>[has footer links]

The problem is, I see index.php loaded correctly as a front page. But when I navigate to other pages like About or Contact, the respective content from these pages is not showing up. Instead what getting loaded there is, same what Index page has. I don't want slider or thumbnail appearing on these pages.

So how to tell wp that, this is my front page, and this is my About page, don't load a slider and stuff on About page!?

Answer 1

I usually create a front-page.php file, Wordpress will use that instead of index.php (which you can use as a generic template from then on).

Answer 2

Make another template and set this template for your single pages. And then from backhand set it.

Answer 3

Try this ,

if( is_home() || is_front_page() ){
//your home page content
}
else{
//other pages

}

For more here

Hope its works..

Answer 4

use is_front_page() to determine the home page. like you only want slider on the home page then edit your header.php file that consist the slider part and do something like this

if( is_front_page() ):
// Front Page stuff like slider and 
// whatever you want
endif;