Check if current page is homepage on Jekyll

Question

There's any way to check if the current page is the homepage?

I want use h1 tag for the logo image only when the current page is the website base url.

Weimaraner

Answer 1

You can use page.url to check if the current page is your index page:

{% if page.url == "/index.html" %}
   <h1>...</h1>
{% endif %}

Stingy

I used {% if page.layout == 'home' %} but your answer is correct too. Thanks! – Weimaraner

I ended up using if {% if page.url == "/" %} . The rest disn't work for me. – Byran

Looks like in the version of Jekyll I just installed (3.3.1) the page.url for index.md is '/'. For example: {% if page.url == "/" %}active{% endif %} – Axes

If permalink option is set at Front Matter of the page, page.url should be compared to its value. Otherwise, as said above, page.url == "/" works fine (v3.4.3). – Andrey

Answer 2

Another option to manage this is adding page IDs to the yml frontmatter

{% if page.id == 'index' %}
  content
{% endif %}

Gonophore

Answer 3

Along @Christopher's comment the best is if you test the page.layout. Because if permalink is set or in other circumstances the page.url can be "/index.html", "/index", or just simply "/". Therefore I think it's more robust:

{% if page.layout == 'home' %}
  <h1>logo</h1>
{% else %}
  <h2>smaller logo</h2>
{% endif %}

Bechtel