Does anybody know how to do this?
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It could be he’s inserting the title as a custom field including break and just uses the regular tag the_title elsewhere?
Hi Jvinch, thanks for replying.
You might be right. So maybe I could try removing the_title from post templates so it doesn’t display there and then manually typing the title with breaks into the body field. That sounds like it would work.
But I still wonder if there is an elegant solution that I’m missing. Like maybe putting something in functions.php to remove the break tags everywhere except within post itself, if that’s possible. I don’t know.
Does anybody have the Thesis theme? How are your titles handled?
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AlexLakes,
What I described above is a method where you would set a custom field (ie. called Special Title) in each post – and then call this value in your template.
Let’s say you create a custom field “special-title” – you’d call it in your template with
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'special-title', true); ?></a>
This will produce a title that links to the permalink of your post, while displaying the value of your custom field. In the custom field, you’d place the title including the <br /> – I’m not sure if that would work, but it’s the only way I could see this happen. Give it a try.
I hope this helps!
That’s good. I just found that Chris Coyier posted a tutorial on your method around the same day that I first posted here. http://digwp.com/2009/10/custom-fields-for-html-post-titles
BUT, a couple people replied to Chris (TeMc & Hiranthi) that there’s a way to do it within functions.php so that it stays simple & maintenance free. They suggested using ‘strip_tags’ and if/else statements. But didn’t describe enough detail for me to do it and haven’t replied again.
Here’s what I think would work:
strip_tags(the_title());
Do you by chance know PHP well enough to pull this off with if/else statements?
I figured it out! This shows the title without any html:
the_title_attribute
Now I just need to set it up to find and replace ‘the_title’ with ‘the_title_attribute’ within sidebars. I believe this is possible to select using ‘is_active_sidebar’.
Does anyone know enough PHP to set up a find & replace for this?
