bloginfo returing invalid results

[flyingkites]

I upgraded to 2.2.2.

I have an extra option field called "description" to the database which allowed me to add a more detailed description of my blog which I put in the sidebar. Better from my point of view that a static home page.

It shows up in Admin and I can put data into it. But on the site, it just displays the title/detail:

<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>

I thought there might be a clash of name. But then I used

<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>
<?php bloginfo('rubbish'); ?>

in the sidebar and it showed detail field twice.

This used to work under 2.0.5.

[DD32]

bloginfo() has a pre-defined set of items which it returns, One of them is 'description'

wp-includes/general-template.php:

		case 'description':
			$output = get_option('blogdescription');
			break;

When you call bloginfo('description') it returns the options value of 'blogdescription'. (I'm basing this on 2.2.1)

That Description is set via Admin->Options->"Tagline:"

Else if you defined a custom option, and wanted to display that, you'd use:
echo get_option('my_custom_option');

D

[Viper007Bond]

Marking as invalid due to improper use of bloginfo() and therefore not a true issue.