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1. Skeary
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I've found the bit in header.php that defines the title of a page, and got rid of the bit that says 'blog archive' like so:
   <title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
   but now I'd like to add a call for the page category before the <?php wp_title(); ?>. How can I do this?

2. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Can you better define "page category"?

   Do you mean Page (as in Write > Pages), or page (as in a general web page), or page (of category-query type content), or a post's page?

3. Skeary
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   i meant post category, sorry. In the title of the 'page' (html page) it currently goes 'blog name' > 'post title' but i want to change it to 'blog name' > 'category' > 'post title'
   (i already changed it from the default which said 'title archives' or something before the post title..) hope that clarified things..

4. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Hmm. What you're trying to do is complicated a bit by the fact you can assign a post to multiple categories. Anyway, this bit of code (placed in your template before <title>) will scrape up the first (or only) category:

   <?php if(is_single()) {
$post = $wp_query->post;
$categories = get_the_category($post->ID);
$cat_title = $categories[0]->cat_name;
} ?>

   You may need to modify $cat_title= to incorporate ">" and whatnot. To display the category:

   <?php echo $cat_title; ?>

   Note that if you use multiple categories and wanted to display each, you could assign the category names to an array:

   <?php if(is_single()) {
$post = $wp_query->post;
$cat_titles = array();
$categories = get_the_category($post->ID);
foreach($categories as $category) {
$cat_titles = $category->cat_name;
}
} ?>

   Then to display you could loop them in a foreach().

5. leisurep
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   in addition to avoid having Blog name.com >> >> category name (instead of Blog name.com >> category name) I changed the code to:

   <title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » <?php } ?>
   <?php if ( is_single() ) {
   $post = $wp_query->post;
   $categories = get_the_category($post->ID);
   foreach($categories as $category) {
   $cat_title = $categories[0]->cat_name;
   }
   } ?>
   <?php echo $cat_title; ?>
   <?php wp_title(); ?></title>

   works like a charm!

   Thanks Kafkaesqui for pointing me in the right direction! :)

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