bloginfo() – Function | Developer.WordPress.org

Displays information about the current site.

Parameters

$showstringoptional: Site information to display.
Default:''

Displays information about your site, mostly gathered from the information you supply in your User Profile and General Settings WordPress Administration Screens. It can be used anywhere within a template file. This always prints a result to the browser. If you need the values for use in PHP, use get_bloginfo().

Possible values for $show

‘name‘ – Displays the “Site Title” set in Settings > General. This data is retrieved from the “blogname” record in the wp_options table.
‘description‘ – Displays the “Tagline” set in Settings > General. This data is retrieved from the “blogdescription” record in the wp_options table.
‘wpurl‘ – Displays the “WordPress address (URL)” set in Settings > General. This data is retrieved from the “siteurl” record in the wp_options table. Consider echoing site_url() instead, especially for multi-site configurations using paths instead of subdomains (it will return the root site not the current sub-site).
‘url‘ – Displays the “Site address (URL)” set in Settings > General. This data is retrieved from the “home” record in the wp_options table. Consider echoing home_url() instead.
‘admin_email‘ – Displays the “E-mail address” set in Settings > General. This data is retrieved from the “admin_email” record in the wp_options table.
‘charset‘ – Displays the “Encoding for pages and feeds” set in Settings > Reading. This data is retrieved from the “blog_charset” record in the wp_options table. Note: this parameter always echoes “UTF-8”, which is the default encoding of WordPress.
‘version‘ – Displays the WordPress Version you use. This data is retrieved from the $wp_version variable set in wp-includes/version.php.
‘html_type‘ – Displays the Content-Type of WordPress HTML pages (default: “text/html”). This data is retrieved from the “html_type” record in the wp_options table. Themes and plugins can override the default value using the pre_option_html_type filter.
‘text_direction‘ – Displays the Text Direction of WordPress HTML pages. Consider using is_rtl() instead.
‘language‘ – Displays the language of WordPress.
‘stylesheet_url‘ – Displays the primary CSS (usually style.css) file URL of the active theme. Consider echoing get_stylesheet_uri() instead.
‘stylesheet_directory‘ – Displays the stylesheet directory URL of the active theme. (Was a local path in earlier WordPress versions.) Consider echoing get_stylesheet_directory_uri() instead.
‘template_url‘ / ‘template_directory‘ – URL of the active theme’s directory. Within child themes, both get_bloginfo(‘template_url’) and get_template() will return the parent theme directory. Consider echoing get_template_directory_uri() instead (for the parent template directory) or get_stylesheet_directory_uri() (for the child template directory).
‘pingback_url‘ – Displays the Pingback XML-RPC file URL (xmlrpc.php).
‘atom_url‘ – Displays the Atom feed URL (/feed/atom).
‘rdf_url‘ – Displays the RDF/RSS 1.0 feed URL (/feed/rfd).
‘rss_url‘ – Displays the RSS 0.92 feed URL (/feed/rss).
‘rss2_url‘ – Displays the RSS 2.0 feed URL (/feed).
‘comments_atom_url‘ – Displays the comments Atom feed URL (/comments/feed).
‘comments_rss2_url‘ – Displays the comments RSS 2.0 feed URL (/comments/feed).
‘siteurl‘ – Deprecated since version 2.2. Echo home_url() , or use bloginfo(‘url’).
‘home‘ – Deprecated since version 2.2. Echo home_url() , or use bloginfo(‘url’).

Source

function bloginfo( $show = '' ) {
	echo get_bloginfo( $show, 'display' );
}

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Uses	Description
get_bloginfo()`wp-includes/general-template.php`	Retrieves information about the current site.

Used by	Description
WP_REST_Widget_Types_Controller::render_legacy_widget_preview_iframe()`wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-widget-types-controller.php`	Renders a page containing a preview of the requested Legacy Widget block.
login_header()`wp-login.php`	Outputs the login page header.
_wp_admin_html_begin()`wp-admin/includes/template.php`	Prints out the beginning of the admin HTML header.
iframe_header()`wp-admin/includes/template.php`	Generic Iframe header for use with Thickbox.
wp_iframe()`wp-admin/includes/media.php`	Outputs the iframe to display the media upload page.
Custom_Image_Header::step_1()`wp-admin/includes/class-custom-image-header.php`	Displays first step of custom header image page.

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Changelog

Version	Description
0.71	Introduced.

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thebigtine 9 years ago

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If using bloginfo as a variable, for example:$url = bloginfo('url'); it will return null. This is because bloginfo() echos the result immediately. So if you want to use any of the bloginfo() parameters as variables use get_bloginfo(). This function returns the result as a string.

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Codex 9 years ago

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Show Blog Title

Display your blog's title in a tag.
```
<h1><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></h1>
```
- “title” also seems to work instead of “name.”
  
  Dan Knauss 1 month ago
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Codex 9 years ago

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Show Blog Description

Displays the tagline of your blog as set in Settings > General.
```
<p><?php bloginfo('description'); ?> </p>
```
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Codex 9 years ago

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Show Blog Title in Link

Displays your blog’s title in a link.
```
<a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a>
```
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Themonic 8 years ago

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Practical example that could be used as it is in themes. Hides description if empty.
```
<?php if ( get_bloginfo( 'description' )  !== '' ) { ?>
	<a class="site-description"><?php bloginfo( 'description' ); ?></a>
<?php } ?>
```
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Codex 9 years ago

Example output

In this example case, the Site Address (URL) is shown as http://www.example.com/home, and the WordPress address (URL) is displayed as http://www.example.com/home/wp.

Please note that directory URLs are missing trailing slashes.

admin_email          = admin@example.com
atom_url             = http://www.example.com/home/feed/atom
charset              = UTF-8
comments_atom_url    = http://www.example.com/home/comments/feed/atom
comments_rss2_url    = http://www.example.com/home/comments/feed
description          = Just another WordPress blog
home                 = http://www.example.com/home (DEPRECATED! use url option instead)
html_type            = text/html
language             = en-US
name                 = Testpilot
pingback_url         = http://www.example.com/home/wp/xmlrpc.php
rdf_url              = http://www.example.com/home/feed/rdf
rss2_url             = http://www.example.com/home/feed
rss_url              = http://www.example.com/home/feed/rss
siteurl              = http://www.example.com/home (DEPRECATED! use url option instead)
stylesheet_directory = http://www.example.com/home/wp/wp-content/themes/largo
stylesheet_url       = http://www.example.com/home/wp/wp-content/themes/largo/style.css
template_directory   = http://www.example.com/home/wp/wp-content/themes/largo
template_url         = http://www.example.com/home/wp/wp-content/themes/largo
text_direction       = ltr
url                  = http://www.example.com/home
version              = 3.5
wpurl                = http://www.example.com/home/wp

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Show Character Set

Displays the character set your blog is using (e.g. “utf-8”).
NOTE: In version 3.5 and later, default character encoding is set to UTF-8 and is not configurable from the Administration Screen.
```
<p>Character set: <?php bloginfo('charset'); ?> </p>
```
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Naveen Kharwar 6 years ago

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```
<h1><a href="<?php bloginfo( 'url' ); ?>"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a></h1>
			<h3><?php bloginfo( 'description' ); ?></h3>
```
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hiesenberg 6 years ago

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show website blog name in header
```
<title><?php bloginfo('name') ?></title>
```
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bloginfo( string $show = ” )

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