Removing The Title of WordPress Pages

Posted by Jeff

on December 13, 2007

Removing the title of the page that appears just above the content may be something to consider if you are using static front page or just want a page on your blog that looks a little different than the rest of your WordPress pages. This short WordPress guide will give you some idea what to remove from your page template file.

In a few other posts: How To Use A Static Front Page With WordPress and: How To Create A Custom WordPress Page Template I cover how to create and use a static front page for WordPress. This is great option to run a website with WordPress.

To remove the title of your page that appears on the page above the content you will need to edit the page.php file or the custom page template file you created.

Open the file from either the WordPress dashboard or on your hosting account. Instructions to do this should be in one of the above mentioned posts. Make sure to make a backup of the file you are editing to fix any mistakes! Now look for and remove the code that looks like this:

<h2><a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>” title=”<?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

Save the file and look at a page that is using the page template you just edited. The title of the page should no longer appear above the content.

You may also want to further customize your static WordPress front page by using a separate sidebar.

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Comments

Comment by Misinterpreted on December 15, 2007 @ 10:59 pm

Great article. Thanks for the info. I’ve got to remember to keep making backups!

Comment by Suzanne Morrison on December 19, 2007 @ 1:50 pm

Good stuff..thanks for this and other related posts…amazing how I can keep learning to tweak wordpress for better seo..

Comment by Evan on November 13, 2008 @ 4:12 pm

Cheers mate this is exactly what I was looking for…many thanks.

Comment by Marc West on January 6, 2009 @ 4:28 pm

Awesome thanks! I have to say your tips and hints have been terrific!!! and have increased my learning two fold… thanks.

Comment by M on January 15, 2009 @ 4:35 am

this is such a handy tip! thank you, fixed my problem with pages yay

Comment by Paul H on May 14, 2009 @ 3:38 am

Thanks for that. Only problem is I’ve read that search engines will no longer ‘see’ my site. Do you know if this is true? Thanks

Jeff Replied:
May 14th, 2009 at 8:20 am

Not sure about that but if you have, and you should, the All In On SEO plugin it shouldn’t be an issue.

Comment by Fenton on July 10, 2009 @ 10:18 am

Thanks for the tips, have been looking up and down for this simple things.

Comment by damien on September 2, 2009 @ 10:04 pm

doesn’t this remove titles from all pages instead just the frontpage?

Jeff Replied:
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:44 pm

Yeah that’s what the post is all about.

Comment by piilarit on September 3, 2009 @ 5:22 pm

I hope this doesnt remove titles from the menu bar.

Comment by Keresőoptimalizálás on September 17, 2009 @ 10:34 am

Ahh Nice one just what i was looking for ..

I hope it doesnt effect the seo .. i use headspace and allinone seo plugin ..

Comment by DFlash on October 12, 2009 @ 4:24 pm

Thanks a bunch – that was the most helpful and well written instruction I seen in a long time! Took me all of 3 minutes to take my site from trashy to just in need of some tweaking!

Will be coming here first for future WordPress woes.

Comment by Jaime on April 2, 2010 @ 7:35 pm

This was just what i was looking for. Your instructions were very easy to understand. Thanks soo much for the info.

Comment by Matt Duggan on August 3, 2010 @ 5:28 pm

Good skills! This was exactly what I was looking for. I was creating a site for a friend and that pesky title was pushing the rest of the page down.

Many thanks for the clear tutorial.

Matt

Comment by Phil Birss on August 7, 2010 @ 4:29 am

Saviour. Thanks for this. Was a pain in thr behind trying to this out.

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