I need to place sidebar content on my WordPress blog that appears on the home page only.

This means the content should display only at mysite.com and not at mysite.com/page/2/

However, both the home page and inside pages use the same template, index.php, which means they both use the same sidebar.

Is there a conditional script that would prevent my home page sidebar from appearing on inside pages?

Thanks.

There are many conditional tags for Wordpress. See here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

You can place this code in your sidebar:

PHP Code:

<?php if ( is_home() ) { ?>
do something for the home page only
<?php } ?>

My scripting is terrible, to say the least.

Would you see if you can correct this script? I'm trying to call sidebar-index.php for the front page and sidebar.php for /page/2/ and succeeding pages.

<?php
if ( is_front_page() && !is_paged() ) ?>
  <?php include("sidebar-index.php"); ?>
else
  <?php include("sidebar.php"); ?>
?>

PHP Code:

<?php
if ( is_front_page() && !is_paged() )
  include("sidebar-index.php");
else
  include("sidebar.php");
?>

That worked!

Many thanks, lizciz.