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Template Tags/bloginfo

1 Description
2 Usage
3 Examples
4 Parameters
- 4.1 Deprecated Parameters
5 Related

Description

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

Usage

<?php bloginfo('show'); ?>

Examples

Show Blog Title

Displays your blog's title in a <h1> tag.

<h1><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></h1>

Show Character Set

Displays the character set your blog is using (ex: utf-8)

<p>Character set: <?php bloginfo('charset'); ?> </p>

Show Blog Description

Displays Tagline for your blog as set in the Administration panel under General Options.

<p><?php bloginfo('description'); ?> </p>

Parameters

show

(string) Informational detail about your blog. Valid values:

'name' - Weblog title; set in General Options. (Default)
'description' - Tagline for your blog; set in General Options.
'url' - URL for your blog's web site address.
'rdf_url' - URL for RDF/RSS 1.0 feed.
'rss_url' - URL for RSS 0.92 feed.
'rss2_url' - URL for RSS 2.0 feed.
'atom_url' - URL for Atom feed.
'comments_rss2_url' - URL for comments RSS 2.0 feed.
'pingback_url' - URL for Pingback (XML-RPC file).
'admin_email' - Administrator's email address; set in General Options.
'charset' - Character encoding for your blog; set in Reading Options.
'version' - Version of WordPress your blog uses.
'text_direction' - Returns 'rtl' for right to left or 'ltr' for left to right (Default).

The following work in WordPress version 1.5 or after:

'comments_atom_url' - URL for comments Atom 1.0 feed.
'html_type' - "Content-type" for your blog.
'language' - The code for your blog's current language.
'wpurl' - URL for WordPress installation.
'template_url' - URL for template in use.
'template_directory' - URL for template's directory.
'stylesheet_url' - URL for primary CSS file. Returns: http//example.com/wp-content/themes/ + your-active-theme-name(value from wp_options, "stylesheet" row) + "/style.css"(hardcoded in wp-includes/theme.php)