How to use Blogger Conditional Tags to show/ hide widgets in specific page

 In this article, I will show you how you can use the Blogger conational tag to show or hide any widget on specific pages like the homepage, post pages, archive pages, etc. 

Conditional tags in Blogger theme code allow us to dynamically inject any code to a specific page and exclude it from all other pages. so, in this way, we can easily speed up our blog loading speed. 

So, let’s understand what conditional tags are and how you can use them on your blogger website. 

Suppose you want to display sidebar widgets only on the homepage and exclude it from all other pages like post pages or archive pages. 

Then you can easily do that by using the blogger conditional tag in the theme code. 

<b:widget cond='data:view.isHomepage' id='HTML1' type='HTML'>

</b:widget>

Here you have to add the cond=”data:view.isHomepage” in the widget code to display the widget only on the homepage. 

So, after adding this conditional code, this widget will stop loading from all other pages except the homepage. So, in this way you can block unnecessary code from loading in a page. 

You can also Apply a fallback condition along with your If conditions as follows.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
  <!-- Content for homepage -->
</b:if>
<b:else>
  <!-- Content for all other pages -->
</b:else>

You can similarly apply a different rule for different pages. 

You can Learn more about how this Conditional Tags works in Blogger website by watching this below video.

List of Conditional tags for page types

You can use if condition in blogger to load the CSS or Javascript file on specific pages like the homepage, post pages, archive pages, etc. You need to wrap the if conditional code just above and below the code.

1. Homepage

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'> 
<!-- only homepage -->
</b:if>

2. Item (post) pages

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<!-- all item pages -->
</b:if>

3. Archive page

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "archive"'>
<!--archive_Page-->
</b:if>

4. Error Page (404)

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "error_page"'>
<!-- all error pages-->
</b:if>

5. Static page

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "static_page"'>
<!-- all static pages -->
</b:if>

6. Specific Label Page

<b:if cond='data:blog.searchLabel == "blogging"'>
<!-- content of label Blogging -->
</b:if>

7. AND

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
  <b:if cond='data:blog.searchQuery'>
    <!--search_page AND index_page-->
  </b:if>
</b:if>

You can use And condition to apply multiple conditions to the same code. Here in the above example, you can see it is targeted at both search pages and index pages at the same time.

8. OR

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
<!-- static page OR index page' -->
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "static_page"'>
<!-- static page OR index page' -->
</b:if>
</b:if>

9. NOT

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<!-- all pages except item pages -->
</b:if>

9. Specific URL

<b:if cond=’data:blog.url == “URL of the page“‘>
 <!--Your HTML, CSS or JS code-->
</b:if>

What if you want to exclude only a Certain Page URL and show the code or widgets on all other pages. Well, You can use the below conditional tag.

<b:if cond='data:blog.url != "https://your-blog-url/"'	>
 <!--Your HTML, CSS or JS code-->
</b:if>

10. All index Pages (Static Pages)

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
<!-- all index pages -->
</b:if>

11. Search page

<b:if cond='data:blog.searchQuery'>
<!-- all search pages -->
</b:if>

12. Specific Search page

<b:if cond='data:blog.searchQuery == "AI"'>
<!-- for Search query 'AI' -->
</b:if>

12. Targets URLs containing a specific keyword

<b:if cond='data:blog.url.contains("keyword")'>
<!-- for keywords in URL -->
</b:if>

Blogger conditional tag is super helpful to load the CSS and JavaScript efficiently and only loads on pages where the code is actually needed and excluded from all other pages

Read Also: How to Load widgets or Script only in desktop or mobile devices in Blogger

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