How to generate custom page names in wordpress? - php

Question

I lost my old website's code and am trying to recreate a function I had created ages ago.
I have custom pages in my Wordpress blog: about, work, contact, news as well as posts and subpages.
I am trying to manipulate the value of <h1 class="site-title"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></h1> to display those different page tiles for those pages and their children so that it would look something like this:
if( $show == 'name' )
{
if( is_page('work') ) $output = 'Work';
if( is_page('contact') ) $output = 'Contact';
if( is_page('about') ) $output = 'About';
}
return $output;
And as for all the rest of the pages, I just want it to display the default site value so somewhere along the line there would be an
else $output = "Site Name";
So I kind of understand the logic because I have done it in the past but cannot remember how the syntax went.
Could anyone refresh my memory?

Answer 1

You could put the following in your functions.php file:
function so20527793_sitename()
{
$output = get_bloginfo( 'name' );
if( is_page( 'work' ) ) $output = 'Work';
if( is_page( 'contact' ) ) $output = 'Contact';
if( is_page( 'about' ) ) $output = 'About';
return $output;
}
Usage:
<h1 class="site-title"><?php echo so20527793_sitename(); ?></h1>

Answer 2

Well I did not get much help in the end so I had to figure it out by googling and combining functions. Here is the result:
function is_child($page_id_or_slug) {
global $post;
if(!is_int($page_id_or_slug)) {
$page = get_page_by_path($page_id_or_slug);
$page_id_or_slug = $page->ID;
}
if(is_page() && $post->post_parent == $page_id_or_slug ) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
function Custom_PageName(){
$output = get_bloginfo( 'name' );
if (is_page('about') || is_child('about')) $output = 'About title';
if (is_page('work') || is_child('work')) $output = 'Work Page';
if (is_page('contact') || is_child('contact')) $output = 'Contact';
return $output;
}