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Pierre Smith
Pierre Smith
11,842 Points
Posted by Pierre Smith
Pierre Smith
11,842 Points

link won't navigate to my home page.

I have this for code:

 <header>

    <div class="container-fluid">
      <div class="row">

        <div class="col-xs-12" style="background-color: #fff;">
              <a href="index.php" title="Professional Student Services Personnel" rel="<?php echo home_url('/'); ?>">
                <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/img/header/header-img.png" style="max-width:100%;" class="hidden-xs" alt="" />
                <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/img/header/header-logo.png" style="max-width:100%;" class="visible-xs-block" alt="" />
              </a>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>

and for some reason it won't go to my home page. is there something i'm missing.

Tore Dahl
Tore Dahl
4,727 Points

Have you tried using the bloginfo-function? Like this:

<a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"> homepage or logo or whatever </a>

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/bloginfo

Pierre Smith
Pierre Smith
11,842 Points
Pierre Smith
Pierre Smith
11,842 Points

Yeah I've tried that It just keeps navigating back to the page that I'm currently on. wow I didn't realize that I was editing the real instead of the href. thanks.

1 Answer

Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points
Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points

Pierre,

I'm noticing that you're using home_url(); for your rel information, why not use that as well for the primary href here instead of using index.php? Remember with WordPress index.php servers more like a router to get to the appropriate content in your project. Another thing to remember too is that / vs. /index.php are treated as different pages in Google meaning unless you're telling Google Webmaster tools which is your primary homepage they could think one of the pages is duplicate content and not rate it as high as it could be. So that being said, why not just change index.php to

<?php echo home_url('/'); ?>