# How to Check for Home Page?

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-check-for-home-page/149>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [September 30, 2014, 2:25pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-check-for-home-page/149 "2014-09-30T14:25:06Z")\
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> [@RickCogley](#):
>
> {{ if .IsHome }}

To add to this, the above corresponds to:

```auto
{{ if eq .Kind "home" }}

```

In Hugo \>= 0.18.

Which is more flexible as you can say:

```auto
{{ if eq .Kind "section" }}

```

```auto
{{ if eq .Kind "taxonomy" }}

```

Etc.

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