How To Add A Filter To The Homepage H1

In a recent job I was doing, I needed to change the <h1> tag on the homepage of my client’s site. In Thesis, the homepage <h1> is set as the tagline, and I not only needed to change that, but have a simple solution for all my sites from here on out.

My setup was as follows: I had a static homepage that I had done a bunch of custom work on.

Editing Core Files

Go to the thesis_1x folder. Click on lib then functions, then open document.php.

• Go to line 95, which says the following:

  echo "\t\t<h1 id=\"tagline\">" . get_bloginfo('description') . "</h1>\n";
  else
  echo "\t\t<p id=\"tagline\">" . get_bloginfo('description') . "</p>\n";
  

• Replace lines 95-97 with this:

  echo "\t\t<h1 id=\"tagline\">" . apply_filters('homepage_h1', get_bloginfo('description')) . "</h1>\n";
  else
  echo "\t\t<p id=\"tagline\">" . apply_filters('homepage_h1', get_bloginfo('description')) . "</p>\n";
  

Using the H1 Filter

To make use of this new filter, simply add the following to custom_functions.php:

function h1_replace() {
return "New H1 Text Goes Here";
}
add_filter('homepage_h1','h1_replace');

Be sure to change the text to what you want the new H1 to be.

Thesis is just that easy!