bloginfo( string $show =  )

Displays information about the current site.

Description

See also

Parameters

$showstringoptional
Site information to display.

Default:''

More Information

Displays information about your site, mostly gathered from the information you supply in your User Profile and General Settings WordPress Administration Screens. It can be used anywhere within a template file. This always prints a result to the browser. If you need the values for use in PHP, use get_bloginfo().

Possible values for $show

  • name‘ – Displays the “Site Title” set in Settings > General. This data is retrieved from the “blogname” record in the wp_options table.
  • description‘ – Displays the “Tagline” set in Settings > General. This data is retrieved from the “blogdescription” record in the wp_options table.
  • wpurl‘ – Displays the “WordPress address (URL)” set in Settings > General. This data is retrieved from the “siteurl” record in the wp_options table. Consider echoing site_url() instead, especially for multi-site configurations using paths instead of subdomains (it will return the root site not the current sub-site).
  • url‘ – Displays the “Site address (URL)” set in Settings > General. This data is retrieved from the “home” record in the wp_options table. Consider echoing home_url() instead.
  • admin_email‘ – Displays the “E-mail address” set in Settings > General. This data is retrieved from the “admin_email” record in the wp_options table.
  • charset‘ – Displays the “Encoding for pages and feeds” set in Settings > Reading. This data is retrieved from the “blog_charset” record in the wp_options table. Note: this parameter always echoes “UTF-8”, which is the default encoding of WordPress.
  • version‘ – Displays the WordPress Version you use. This data is retrieved from the $wp_version variable set in wp-includes/version.php.
  • html_type‘ – Displays the Content-Type of WordPress HTML pages (default: “text/html”). This data is retrieved from the “html_type” record in the wp_options table. Themes and plugins can override the default value using the pre_option_html_type filter.
  • text_direction‘ – Displays the Text Direction of WordPress HTML pages. Consider using is_rtl() instead.
  • language‘ – Displays the language of WordPress.
  • stylesheet_url‘ – Displays the primary CSS (usually style.css) file URL of the active theme. Consider echoing get_stylesheet_uri() instead.
  • stylesheet_directory‘ – Displays the stylesheet directory URL of the active theme. (Was a local path in earlier WordPress versions.) Consider echoing get_stylesheet_directory_uri() instead.
  • template_url‘ / ‘template_directory‘ – URL of the active theme’s directory. Within child themes, both get_bloginfo(‘template_url’) and get_template() will return the parent theme directory. Consider echoing get_template_directory_uri() instead (for the parent template directory) or get_stylesheet_directory_uri() (for the child template directory).
  • pingback_url‘ – Displays the Pingback XML-RPC file URL (xmlrpc.php).
  • atom_url‘ – Displays the Atom feed URL (/feed/atom).
  • rdf_url‘ – Displays the RDF/RSS 1.0 feed URL (/feed/rfd).
  • rss_url‘ – Displays the RSS 0.92 feed URL (/feed/rss).
  • rss2_url‘ – Displays the RSS 2.0 feed URL (/feed).
  • comments_atom_url‘ – Displays the comments Atom feed URL (/comments/feed).
  • comments_rss2_url‘ – Displays the comments RSS 2.0 feed URL (/comments/feed).
  • siteurl‘ – Deprecated since version 2.2. Echo home_url() , or use bloginfo(‘url’).
  • home‘ – Deprecated since version 2.2. Echo home_url() , or use bloginfo(‘url’).

Source

function bloginfo( $show = '' ) {
	echo get_bloginfo( $show, 'display' );
}

Changelog

VersionDescription
0.71Introduced.

User Contributed Notes

  1. Skip to note 15 content

    Example output

    In this example case, the Site Address (URL) is shown as http://www.example.com/home, and the WordPress address (URL) is displayed as http://www.example.com/home/wp.

    Please note that directory URLs are missing trailing slashes.

    admin_email          = admin@example.com
    atom_url             = http://www.example.com/home/feed/atom
    charset              = UTF-8
    comments_atom_url    = http://www.example.com/home/comments/feed/atom
    comments_rss2_url    = http://www.example.com/home/comments/feed
    description          = Just another WordPress blog
    home                 = http://www.example.com/home (DEPRECATED! use url option instead)
    html_type            = text/html
    language             = en-US
    name                 = Testpilot
    pingback_url         = http://www.example.com/home/wp/xmlrpc.php
    rdf_url              = http://www.example.com/home/feed/rdf
    rss2_url             = http://www.example.com/home/feed
    rss_url              = http://www.example.com/home/feed/rss
    siteurl              = http://www.example.com/home (DEPRECATED! use url option instead)
    stylesheet_directory = http://www.example.com/home/wp/wp-content/themes/largo
    stylesheet_url       = http://www.example.com/home/wp/wp-content/themes/largo/style.css
    template_directory   = http://www.example.com/home/wp/wp-content/themes/largo
    template_url         = http://www.example.com/home/wp/wp-content/themes/largo
    text_direction       = ltr
    url                  = http://www.example.com/home
    version              = 3.5
    wpurl                = http://www.example.com/home/wp

You must log in before being able to contribute a note or feedback.