[Resolved] Remove Prefix Before Title on CPT Archive Pages

[Dean]

Hi Tom.

I have created a CPT and also registered 2 custom taxonomies for it similar to how standard WP posts have categories and tags.

However on the CPT taxonomy archives pages I am getting the name of the taxonomy displayed before the title. For example 1 of my taxonomies is “Series”. So on the archive page the main <h1> is displayed like this – Series: Example Series –

I searched the forum and found your following gist for those having a similar issue but with Archives in the title.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/06dbd945fa11991d7af1a8d6800f0f87

However the above gist had no effect for me. I tried change priority and a few different things but couldn’t get it to work. Any idea where I am going wrong?

[David]

Hi there,

can you share a link to an archive where i can see the issue?

[Dean]

Hi David.

This is on localhost so I cannot share a link.

However, I have found that this snippet has no affect whatsoever:

add_filter( 'get_the_archive_title', 'tu_archive_title_remove_prefix' );
function tu_archive_title_remove_prefix( $title ) {
    if ( is_post_type_archive() ) {
        $title = post_type_archive_title( '', false );
    }

    return $title;
}

But this snippet replaces the title with “Test” which is not the desired outcome but I think helps to highlight the issue:

add_filter( 'get_the_archive_title', 'tu_archive_title_remove_prefix' );
function tu_archive_title_remove_prefix( $title ) {
    /*if ( is_post_type_archive() ) {
        $title = post_type_archive_title( '', false );
    }*/

    $title = 'Test';

    return $title;
}

Here is the code I am using to create the custom taxonomy:

function ls_register_series_taxonomy() {
    $labels = array(
      	'name'                       => _x( 'Series', 'Taxonomy General Name', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'singular_name'              => _x( 'Series', 'Taxonomy Singular Name', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'menu_name'                  => __( 'Series', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'all_items'                  => __( 'All Series', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'parent_item'                => __( 'Parent Series', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'parent_item_colon'          => __( 'Parent Series:', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'new_item_name'              => __( 'New Series Name', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'add_new_item'               => __( 'Add New Series', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'edit_item'                  => __( 'Edit Series', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'update_item'                => __( 'Update Series', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'view_item'                  => __( 'View Series', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'separate_items_with_commas' => __( 'Separate Series with commas', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'add_or_remove_items'        => __( 'Add or remove Series', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'choose_from_most_used'      => __( 'Choose from the most used', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'popular_items'              => __( 'Popular Series', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'search_items'               => __( 'Search Series', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'not_found'                  => __( 'Series Not Found', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'no_terms'                   => __( 'No Series', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'items_list'                 => __( 'Series list', 'my-books-cpt' ),
      	'items_list_navigation'      => __( 'Series list navigation', 'my-books-cpt' ),
    );
    $rewrite = array(
        'slug'                       => 'series',
        'with_front'                 => false,
        'hierarchical'               => true,
    );
    $args = array(
      	'labels'                     => $labels,
      	'hierarchical'               => true,
      	'public'                     => true,
      	'show_ui'                    => true,
      	'show_admin_column'          => true,
      	'show_in_nav_menus'          => true,
      	'show_tagcloud'              => true,
        'rewrite'                    => $rewrite,
        'show_in_rest'               => true,
    );
    register_taxonomy( 'series', array( 'books' ), $args );

}
add_action( 'init', 'ls_register_series_taxonomy');

[Tom]

Hi there,

Since it’s a taxonomy archive, you could try this:

add_filter( 'get_the_archive_title', function( $title ) {
    if ( is_tax() ) {
        $title = single_term_title( '', false );
    }

    return $title;
} );

[Dean]

Thanks Tom. That did the trick. I didn’t realise there was a difference between archive and taxonomy archive. Thought they were all just classed as archives.

Thanks again 🙂

[Tom]

You’re welcome 🙂

[Joshua]

Ahhh just what I was looking for! GeneratePress team is awesome, everytime I think I’m going to post a support topic, I do a quick search and find the answer 9 times out of 10. Thanks guys!

[Tom]

Awesome, great to hear! Thanks 🙂

[Author]

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