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wordpress is_front_page() issue

You are running into the minefield of the way home and front_page work in relation to “normal” home and “static” home pages.

In many situations is_home and is_frontpage both eval as true on the REAL homepage and also on the main blog page. The Codex says…

This Conditional Tag checks if the main page is a posts or a Page.
This is a boolean function, meaning it returns either TRUE or FALSE.
It returns TRUE when the main blog page is being displayed and the
Settings->Reading->Front page displays is set to “Your latest posts”,
or when is set to “A static page” and the “Front Page” value is the
current Page being displayed.

I recommend bypassing the minefield by using this instead. Job done!

if ( $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] == "https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/" ) { }

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