Remove page header from front page?

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What’s the best way to remove the page title from the front page?

I can do it in page-header.php like this:

<?php if(!is_front_page() ) { ?>
<div class="page-header">
  <h1>
    <?php echo roots_title(); ?>
  </h1>
</div>
<?php } ?>

But I’d rather do it with templates somehow. I still don’t understand how Roots templates work but can I create an alternative page-header.php for the home page? Like page-header-home.php or something?

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You could copy page.php to front-page.php and remove get_template_part('templates/page', 'header'); - but if you’re not doing any further customizations within that template then I think the conditional statement is better.

I use conditional statements all the time in template files to avoid having to create new templates.

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Thanks for the fast reply. I’ll just stick with the conditional if that’s what you suggest. I had it in my head that it was bad practice for some reason.

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I am not if this is a recommended way or not, but I change the condition in the lib/titles.php (Sage 8.5.3)

if (is_home() || is_front_page()) {
    return; // Remove homepage title 
 }
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This would remove the text of the title, but not the HTML surrounding it. I wouldn’t do it this way.

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