Comments on: Format Headline Title Tag To Attract Readers

By: John

John — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 02:10:10 +0000

Yeah, search results and months suck. I think the category title is fine. It’s easy enough to fix with another if else statement to account for those views. I’ll work on it later.

By: markku

markku — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:13:25 +0000

I use the “post_title | weblog_name” format just as Mathias implemented it. Works quite well.

By: N.

N. — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:33:05 +0000

Doesn’t look right when doing a search. Viewing Categories and months look kind of weird too, in my opinion.

By: Mathias Bynens

Mathias Bynens — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:09:34 +0000

Cool! I had been using a homegrown function for title tag handling, but now if I'd just port my non-blog content to WordPress Pages I can just use this code. I have a preferation for the pipe ('|') as a separator. <?php if (is_home()) { bloginfo('name'); } else { wp_title(' '); ?> | <? bloginfo('name'); } ?> Thank you.

By: Elegantly

Elegantly — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:24:01 +0000

It’s not a plugin, but a simple change to the template you’re using. In addition, it is far more likely that updated WordPress versions will break a plugin than a template.

By: Ozh

Ozh — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:04:20 +0000

What's the difference with this and the old stuff Optimal Title ?

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By: John

John — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:34:25 +0000

Oh! Thanks Andy! While I was writing this up I actually had a quick thought that perhaps something like this would work but I was too lazy to follow up. Thanks again. I have updated the code above to reflect the changes.

By: Andy Skelton

Andy Skelton — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:32:06 +0000

Oops, my code segment got chopped. Let me try again: by Just change wp_title(); to wp_title(''); and it will get rid of the raquo without editing the WP core. Cheers!

By: Andy Skelton

Andy Skelton — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:29:36 +0000

Thanks! Great tip. There is a way to do it without editing the WP core: add the empty string as an argument for wp_title:
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