We've already discussed the importance of conditional menus to give access to conditional content. The user or user type is not the only factor that differentiates content. WordPress websites can display content based on specific dates, browsers, specific posts/page types, specific settings, and so on. This conditional content is handled by the conditional tags of WordPress. Conditional tags are a set of built-in functions that return Boolean values after checking various conditions that are specific to WordPress sites.

In this recipe, we are going to look at the use of some of the available conditional tags and tips for using them in the real world.