[wp-testers] Twenty-Ten Front Page < h2 >

[Bill Nickerson]

It has to do with SEO more than anything.  Search engines look at the h1
as being the main title.  h2's are subtitles.  If they see a lot of h1's
they may penalize them.

The different heading levels are more about meaning of the content
rather than the look.

On 06/06/2010 1:51 PM, Bruce Wampler wrote:
> Sorry, don't mean to beat this to death, but just a follow up on using
> < h2 > for the title on the front page in Twenty Ten.
>
> I see the code is explicitly there in page.php, but I really don't
> understand the reasoning behind this. I can see an argument for using
> h2 for posts and h1 for pages, by why treat the front page
> differently? Seems to me a post is a post and a page a page, and one
> would want consistent treatment for each.
>
> The default Twenty Ten CSS for each of these makes the titles look the
> same anyway, but if you are writing a child theme, and want different
> title looks for pages and posts, this decision makes that difficult
> for CSS only solutions.
>
> My solution in the end is to add a modified page.php in the child
> theme - but that then breaks the idea of a CSS only child theme.
>
> Oh well - figuring I needed to start fiddling with override php files
> other than functions.php opens up a bunch more theming opportunities,
> so I'll go with that.
>
> Nevertheless - Twenty Ten + child themes is a much better way to build
> a theme. I wrote a couple of themes for WP 2, and have just finished a
> version  of a Twenty Ten child theme, and I must say the new approach
> is much more productive and easier. Don't have to worry that you got
> every last thing covered - it will be there in the Twenty Ten parent.
> Very cool indeed.
>