wordpress if statement not responding

The website I am working on has a different footer on the home page to all the other pages on the site. However the footer does not appe开发者_如何转开发ar on any of the pages at all. here is the code I am using:

<?php if ( is_home() ) {
    // This is a homepage 
?>

    <div id="footer"> This is home page</div>

<? } else {   ?> 

    <div id="footer">This is not a homepage</div> 

<?}?>

Is my syntax wrong? Why doesn't this code work?

Thank you all in advance.

2 things I can think of here:

1. You are using a static front page. In this case you will need to check for is_front_page()
2. Using <?php open tags

Consider revising the code to following:

<?php if ( is_home() || is_front_page()) { ?>
    // This is a homepage 
    <div id="footer"> This is home page</div>
<?php } else {   ?> 
    <div id="footer">This is not a homepage</div> 
<?php } ?>

Unless you're using an old version of php, you might want to switch <? } else { ?> to <?php } else { ?> - note that I'm using a <?php instead of just <?.

As for the is_home(), you might want to read up on the following link: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_home

It seems as if is_home() sometimes isn't the same thing as is_frontpage(), which means that you in some cases need to use is_frontpage() instead.

Good luck!

Using <?php open tags is one of the "best practices" in WordPress coding. Also, consider using <?php get_footer('footer-variant') ?> instead of conditional statements in your footer.php. After calling get_footer('my-footer'), footer-my-footer.php file will be used.