Should homepage have h1 tag

[Kais]

Hi Bill

I am looking at the home page.
My goal is to add a logo image in addition to the text logo.

Should the home page have an <h1> tag in in the <header> section ?
And all other pages (not home page) will not have an <h1> in the <header> ?

I have “tagged” the current home page as the home page in every way I know how – but I do not see an h1 tag

I must be missing something.
Thanks

kais

[Bill Robbins]

Good Morning Kais,

It should show the h1 tag there on the home page and not on the others. What you can do is make a change to the header so that it always displays as a h1. Here’s how to do that:

1. Go to the Appearance section in your WordPress dashboard and choose Edit.
2. From the list of files on your right, choose header.php
3. Find this section:

   
   		<div id="logo">
   		<?php if(of_get_option('header_blog_title') == 'image') { 
   		
   				if (is_home()) {
   					echo '<h1><a href="'.home_url().'/"><img src="'.of_get_option('logo','').'" alt="'.get_bloginfo('name').'" /></a></h1>';
   				} else {
   					echo '<p><a href="'.home_url().'/"><img src="'.of_get_option('logo','').'" alt="'.get_bloginfo('name').'" /></a></p>';
   				}
   			 } elseif(of_get_option('header_blog_title') == 'text') { 
   				
   				if (is_home()) {
   					echo '<h1><a href="'.home_url().'/">'.get_bloginfo('name').'</a></h1>';
   				} else {
   					echo '<p><a href="'.home_url().'/">'.get_bloginfo('name').'</a></p>';
   				}
   		} ?>
   		
   		</div>
   

   and change it to be like this:

   
   <div id="logo">
   		<?php if(of_get_option('header_blog_title') == 'image') { 
   		
   				echo '<h1><a href="'.home_url().'/"><img src="'.of_get_option('logo','').'" alt="'.get_bloginfo('name').'" /></a></h1>';
   				
   			 } elseif(of_get_option('header_blog_title') == 'text') { 
   				
   				echo '<h1><a href="'.home_url().'/">'.get_bloginfo('name').'</a></h1>';
   				
   		} ?>
   

4. Save your changes.

That should set things so that you always have a H1 tag there. The “rules” here changes somewhat after I made the theme. Now multiple h1 tags are fine with Google as long as they fit together semantically like they should.

Have a great week,
Bill

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