Title: WP_Theme::display
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# WP_Theme::display( string $header, bool $markup = true, bool $translate = true ): string|array|false

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/display/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/display/?output_format=md#return)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/display/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/display/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/display/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Gets a theme header, formatted and translated for display.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/display/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$header`stringrequired

Theme header. Name, Description, Author, Version, ThemeURI, AuthorURI, Status, Tags.

`$markup`booloptional

Whether to mark up the header. Defaults to true.

Default:`true`

`$translate`booloptional

Whether to translate the header. Defaults to true.

Default:`true`

## 󠀁[Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/display/?output_format=md#return)󠁿

 string|array|false Processed header. An array for Tags if `$markup` is false, string
otherwise.
 False on failure.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/display/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    public function display( $header, $markup = true, $translate = true ) {
    	$value = $this->get( $header );
    	if ( false === $value ) {
    		return false;
    	}

    	if ( $translate && ( empty( $value ) || ! $this->load_textdomain() ) ) {
    		$translate = false;
    	}

    	if ( $translate ) {
    		$value = $this->translate_header( $header, $value );
    	}

    	if ( $markup ) {
    		$value = $this->markup_header( $header, $value, $translate );
    	}

    	return $value;
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php#L910)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php#L910-L929)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/display/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [WP_Theme::load_textdomain()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/load_textdomain/)`wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php` |

Loads the theme’s textdomain.

  | 
| [WP_Theme::translate_header()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/translate_header/)`wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php` |

Translates a theme header.

  | 
| [WP_Theme::markup_header()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/markup_header/)`wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php` |

Marks up a theme header.

  | 
| [WP_Theme::get()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/get/)`wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php` |

Gets a raw, unformatted theme header.

  |

| Used by | Description | 
| [WP_Theme::markup_header()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/markup_header/)`wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php` |

Marks up a theme header.

  | 
| [WP_Theme::__toString()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/__tostring/)`wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php` |

When converting the object to a string, the theme name is returned.

  | 
| [WP_Theme::__get()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/__get/)`wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php` |

__get() magic method for properties formerly returned by [current_theme_info()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/current_theme_info/)

  | 
| [WP_Theme::offsetGet()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/offsetget/)`wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php` |  |

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_theme/display/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.4.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.4.0/) | Introduced. |

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