[Resolved] Display Different Text for Page Title

[Robert]

By default WordPress displays the page title as the header text of the page.
Can this be changed, so I could specify different text to be displayed at top of page.

[Leo]

You can just hide the default title and manually add whatever text you want:
<h1>My custom title</h1>

[Robert]

What do you mean by “hide” the default title? I can make the title blank, so in the list of all pages it shows (no title) for the Title. What I see in the browser when the page is live is just what I want. But I have a great many such pages, so this seems impractical for being able to edit my pages, with so many of them having (no title).

Is there something else I could do or some workaround?

[David]

Hi there,

what Leo is describing is to use the Layout > Disable Elements meta:

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/disable-elements-overview/

You would leave the Post title intact, which would be used for indexing and will be displayed in your archives. Then you can disable the title on each post so it doesn’t get displayed. And then set your own H1 element in the content of your post.

Or are we misreading what you require?

[Robert]

Ah, that is a feature I did not know about!! GeneratePress premium is wonderful! I found a simple workaround that will meet my immediate needs — I simply omitted the header in the body of the page, and then using the premium Typography module I adjusted the font size of the title to be smaller, so my longer page title is not a problem.

But I’ve only done this for 4 pages, so I may switch to using the Disable facility.

Again, you guys have come through very promptly. Scrolling through all the support requests you handle, I am amazed!

Thank you.

[Leo]

Glad we could help!

[Author]

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