Allow HTML code in WordPress tagline

Maybe its just me but I always feel like the site description or WordPress tagline begs for some styling. Here’s an easy one to use as an example*:

The Future’s Bright. The Future’s orange

In order to output the Tagline most themes use

the get_bloginfo() function, esc_html( get_bloginfo( 'description' ) ) or just get_bloginfo( 'description' ) Let’s say we wanted to do something like this:

The Future’s Bright. The Future’s orange

In that case you could use the following in your theme:

  <h2 class="tagline"><?php echo html_entity_decode(get_bloginfo('description'));?></h2>

And use HTML in your Tagline under “Settings”.

There you have it a styleable and dynamic tagline!

*Incidentally I have absolutely no affiliation with this company and chose this example purely because of the colour.