Hide block title

This may not be of any help, but I wanted to hide the title ONLY if the Homebox were set to be the front page.
I modified .../sites/all/themes/{my theme}/templates/page.tpl.php as follows:

Around line 123, change
      <?php if ($title): ?>
         <h2 class="title" id="page-title"><?php print $title; ?></h2>
      <?php endif; ?>
to
      <?php if ($title): ?>
         <?php if (!$is_front): ?>  <!-- print title only if NOT the front page -->
           <h2 class="title" id="page-title"><?php print $title; ?></h2>
         <?php endif; ?>
      <?php endif; ?>

My environment is Drupal-7 (7.22) and Homebox (7.x-2.0-beta6).
 

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