Delete page titles from pages – twent ten

First of all, if you use as custom menu your navigation label (what it says in the menu) doesn’t have to be the title of the page. It also means you can control what goes into the menu (i.e. you don’t just get every page, in alphabetical order). The default menu is seldom what you want, for long, anyway.

Second, having a page header is good for SEO (if it describes your page, obviously).

Third if you really must get rid of it, in your child theme’s style.css file, add this rule:

#content .entry-title {
  display: none;
}

You are using a child theme, aren’t you? Directly modifying a default theme is not good. See esmi’s many posts on the subject.

You need something like:

body.category .entry-title {
  display: block;
}

I think.

And as I said, these are not repeat titles. You have left your menu in its default state and so it is using the page titles as the navigation label, because you haven’t told it anything else. This does not have to be the case. For example, see:

http://www.yorkshiredalesphotography.co.uk/wp/

The menu item is ‘Home’, but the page title is: “Showcasing the beautiful scenery of the Yorkshire Dales”. The navigation label is for navigation (usability), the title is to describe the page (for usability and SEO).

HTH

PAE

Try this instead of the first rule I gave you:

body.page .entry-title {
  display: none;
}

I’m trying to make it specific to pages.

Cheers

PAE

My bad, I think

You’ll need:

body.page #content .entry-title {
  display: none;
}

Let’s see if that’s any good…

If it doesn’t work, can you leave it in place so that I can try to see what’s going on (using Firebug)?

PAE

Where are you adding the new rule? Did you leave it in your stylesheet for me to have a look at?

Cheers

PAE

You probably don’t want to remove that line. What you want to do is to make it invisible.

Where did you put the style rule I suggested to you. It’s not in the style sheet as far as I can see.

Cheers

PAE

If you insist on messing about with the PHP of a default theme, then you probably want to look at loop-page.php.

Cheers

PAE