WordPress wp_title blank on index page

Question

I\'m new to WordPress and just installed version 3.3.1.

I did some googling regarding this question and found some answers but they were relevant to version 2.7 and

Answer 1

Late to the conversation...

But if you want to use the actual title of the page that you are using for the static front page, you can use the following:

if (is_front_page())
{
    $title = single_post_title( '', false );
}

Although, in the actual source for wp_title(), there is the following, specificaly disabling this for the static front page:

if ( is_single() || ( is_home() && ! is_front_page() ) || ( is_page() && ! is_front_page() ) ) {
    $title = single_post_title( '', false );
}

I suspect there is good reason for this. So, proceed with caution.