How to remove double titles

I just tried the IF statement, but it didn’t seem to work.

In the single.php file, the title tag looks like this:

<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>

I changed it as follows, using a page id of 3 for the file I want to modify:

<?php If (!is_single('3')){?><h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3><?php }?>

I then uploaded it into the theme folder.

Am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks,
Antonella

Hi Eric,

I tried that as well but is still didn’t work. I don’t suppose I need a page id since it’s the front page?

Here’s a link to the draft site:
http://www.antonellasevero.com/joantest/

Thanks,
Antonella

Hi,

Here is the html source of the section on the rendered page:

<li class="page_item <li class="page_item page-item-3 current_page_item"><a href="http://www.antonellasevero.com/joantest" title="home">home</a></li>
<li class="page_item page-item-2"><a href="http://www.antonellasevero.com/joantest/informacion/" title="biografía">biografía</a></li>
<li class="page_item page-item-9"><a href="http://www.antonellasevero.com/joantest/blog/" title="Blog">Blog</a></li>
</li></ul>

Here is the source of the index.php file:

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="content">

	<div id="content-left">

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

			<div class="box-left" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

				<?php If (!is_front_page()){?><h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3><?php }?>
				<div class="meta">
					<span class="meta-date"><?php the_time('l, F jS, Y'); ?></span> |
					<span class="meta-categories"><?php the_category(', '); ?></span> |
					<span class="meta-comments"><?php comments_popup_link(__('No Comments'), __('1 Comment'), __('% Comments')); ?></span>
				</div>

				<?php the_content(__('&rsaquo; Continue reading')); ?>

				<?php the_tags('<p class="tags">Tags: ', ', ', '</p>'); ?>

				<div class="clear"></div></div>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

		<div class="box-left navigation">

        	<?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Previous Entries') ?> <?php previous_posts_link('Next Entries &raquo;') ?>

		</div>

		<?php else : ?>

		<div class="box-left">

			<h3>Not found!</h3>
			<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
			<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>

		</div>

<?php endif; ?>

	  </div><!-- end content-left -->

	  <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

	  <div class="clear"></div>

</div><!-- end content -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Here is the source of the single.php file:

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="content">

		<div id="content-left">

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

			<div class="box-left" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

				<?php If (!is_single('3')){?><h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3><?php }?>
				<div class="meta">
					<span class="meta-date"><?php the_time('l, F jS, Y'); ?></span> |
					<span class="meta-categories"><?php the_category(', '); ?></span>
				</div>

				<?php the_content(); ?>

				<?php the_tags('<p class="tags">Tags: ', ', ', '</p>'); ?>

			<div class="clear"></div></div>

			<?php comments_template(); ?>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

		<?php else : ?>

		<div class="box-left">

			<h3>Not found!</h3>
			<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
			<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>

		</div>

<?php endif; ?>

	  </div><!-- end content-left -->

	  <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

	  <div class="clear"></div>

</div><!-- end content -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Let me know if you needed something else to see.

Thanks so much!
Antonella

Hi Eric,

It half-worked! The title is still appearing on the static home page but it has disappeared on the Blog page. I do have the static page set up as home page and the blog for recent posts, so I’m not sure what’s going wrong here. Any ideas?

The logic above did make more sense to me because before it didn’t seem to look for something and perform an action either way.

Here’s the link again: http://www.antonellasevero.com/joantest/

Thanks!
Antonella

Hi,

Unfortunately this didn’t work either. I actually spent the day testing and retesting before posting back. I even deleted the theme and started over, but I’m still having the same problems.

The title is disappearing from the Blog section but not the home page. It seems that the code is correct, but there is something conflicting somewhere, so that the blog page is still being read as the home page. Is this possible? I tried testing on different pages (single.php, page.php, index.php). Is there some other page I should be revising?

I am new to WordPress and would love to use it to build CMS sites and have learned so much in the last few days. I really appreciate all the help you’ve given, and sorry it’s taking so long to get this resolved!

thanks,
Antonella

I figured it out!!! I started from scratch on a different theme and tested one element at a time. I got it to work and then tried it on the theme I wanted (demar), and with just a variation, also got it to work.

The only changes required are in the page.php file (no changes to the index.php or single.php).

If the page.php file has a title tag like this:
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

replace it with this:

<?php if( ! is_front_page()){?>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2><?php }?>

If the page.php file has a title tag that includes a permalink reference like this:
<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>

replace it with this:
<?php if( ! is_front_page()){?><h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3><?php }?>

Thank you so much for your help and getting me on my way!
Antonella