Different header in different pages in wordpress - wordpress

Question

I am going to develop a WordPress theme for my own site. It has three types of menu.
first one is only for the home page, the second one is for any normal page (like about us, contact etc.) and the third one is for article page (when a news will be clicked then where one will be gone).
how can I do this?
thanks.

Answer 1

There are multiple ways you can go about doing this. For the article I would create a PHP file named page-article.php and within the file follow what developer tells you:
<?php
/**
* Template Name: Article
*
*/
and then create a custom header for the article in a header-article.php file:
header('article') ?>
To target the home you could use is_page() and pass it home but I would suggest using is_home() instead but you could always pass both like:
if ( is_page('home') || is_home() ) :
// further code
endif;
Do note this would depend on your settings as you do not mention if you will have a custom page set by the setting under Settings -> Reading so if you set front page you should target it with is_front_page():
if ( is_page('home') || is_home() || is_front_page() ) :
// further code
endif;
You could always code all of this in one header.php file but I would suggest creating an additional header file and calling it header-article.php

Answer 2

You can do it using is_page() function.
See full documentation here
if( is_page( array( 'about-us', 'contact') ){
//display your page menu
}
if( is_page( 'home' ){
//display your home page menu
}
if( is_page( 'article' ){
//display your article page menu
}else{
//display default menu
}

Answer 3

If you need different header in different page then you have to create a page template then you can add different header file in different page template-
Normally we use get_header() to include header.php
Now create a copy of header.php file and named it header-alternative.php
Then create a page template named "Alternative header"
<?php get_header('alternative');
/*
*Template Name: Alternative Header
*/
?>
<section class="error-page-inner">
<h1 class="error-code"><?php esc_html_e( '404', 'labstore' ); ?></h1>
</section>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Then header-alternative.php is called for this page template.