[Resolved] Can’t change BLOG Title

[Nic]

For some reason the Title “BLOG” on blog homepage can not be changed – what do i miss here?? normally it gets generated by the page title. but seems an exception here:

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screenshot shows split view. left side frontend and right side backend. Where do i change “BLOG”??

Site Infos in hidden field.

[David]

Hi there,

are you using a Header Element to display the {{post_title}} ?
If so that won’t work on the Blog page – you will need to create a separate Header Element and add your title within the element.

Make sure you exclude the Blog from your other Header Element.

[Nic]

yes indeed i use the delivered header element with <h1>{{post_title}}</h1>. still confuses me where “blog” comes from. DB entry contains “News” for this page id. Do you insert it by code?

[David]

“Blog” comes from the Hero element function.
As the WP blog does not have a ‘content title’ and does not parse any Meta box values we had two choices:

1. Don’t output anything – which could lead the Element not displaying at all.
2. Auto add a commonly used title.

Either choice required the above steps to fix. The latter was less confusing to users and easier for us to diagnose and assist with a fix.

[Nic]

sorry but i don’t agree. you can always get the title from the blog page by
get_the_title(get_option('page_for_posts'))
even outside the loop! just use the value if it is not empty.

[Tom]

You can do something like this:

add_filter( 'generate_page_hero_post_title', function( $title ) {
    if ( is_home() ) {
        $title = 'Your custom title';
    }

    return $title;
} );

[Nic]

alright this works for me:

add_filter( 'generate_page_hero_post_title', function( $title ) {
	if ( is_home() OR is_singular("post") ) {
		$title = get_the_title(get_option('page_for_posts'));
	}

	return $title;
} );

thanks for the hook!
another question regarding global header element: seems, if i put {{post_title}} in it, the default title of the current post disappears. if there is no {{post_title}} in the header element, the post title is appears again. how and where is this controlled? i need to exclude it for posts.

[Nic]

alright, this seems to do the trick:

add_filter("generate_show_title",function(){
    if(is_singular("post")) return true;
    return false;
},100);

[Tom]

Yea, we use that same filter to disable the main title if {{post_title}} is found. Glad you got it all working 🙂

[Author]

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