Title: need help with php if/else
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# need help with php if/else

 *  [rawwebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rawwebdesign/)
 * (@rawwebdesign)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-php-ifelse/)
 * Hi,
 * With some help from all of you wonderful forum posters, I’ve come up with this
   for my header’s meta-description:
 *     ```
       <?php if( is_home() ) : ?>
       <meta name="description" content="Web Design, Web Development, and Search Engine Optimization in Columbus, Ohio" />
   
       <?php else : ?>
       <meta name="description" content="<?php the_excerpt() ?>" />
   
       <?php endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * Now that I’m adding Ultimate Tag Warrior, I wanted to insert another condition
   that I thought would look like this:
 *     ```
       <?php if( is_home() ) : ?>
       <meta name="description" content="Web Design, Web Development, and Search Engine Optimization in Columbus, Ohio" />
   
       <?php if( is_tag() ) : ?>
       <meta name="description" content="You are now checking out all posts about <?php UTW_ShowCurrentTagSet('tagsetcommalist') ?>" />
   
       <?php else : ?>
       <meta name="description" content="<?php the_excerpt() ?>" />
   
       <?php endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * But the whole site just breaks when I put that in… what am I missing?
 * Thanks soooo much to anyone who can help…
 * Brad

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 *  [lexhair](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lexhair/)
 * (@lexhair)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-php-ifelse/#post-678763)
 * Try `elseif( is_tag())`
 *  Thread Starter [rawwebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rawwebdesign/)
 * (@rawwebdesign)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-php-ifelse/#post-678809)
 * lexhair,
 * that works so perfectly. thanks a bundle.
 * -brad

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