Title: Post Title Question Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Post Title Question * [joycejnr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joycejnr/) * (@joycejnr) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/) * I’m having trouble understanding how the post titles and headings in the Gazette Theme — [http://www.gazette.computersandthings.com/](http://www.gazette.computersandthings.com/)— are generated. When I create a title in Write Post it appears blue and very small above the content, as opposed to the Gazette’s showing the title in an h4 box; I’m guessing that the Gazette’s headings are composed in the content portion between the h4 heading tags and that they are also permalinks(?). However when I omit writing anything in the post title box the Write/write Post info shows the post as “Post #6.” * I’m an absolute WordPress/blog newbie and wonder if anyone can tell me how titles are composed/entered in this theme (hopefully step-by-step!) and if the title box is indeed left blank. * Thanks in advance for any help. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 25 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/page/2/?output_format=md) * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/#post-496836) * For design/display questions the best way to hope for an answer is to provide a live link. * Thread Starter [joycejnr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joycejnr/) * (@joycejnr) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/#post-496846) * As I do hope for an answer, I’d be very happy to provide a live link if I knew what it was…what is a “live link?” (Like I said, I’m a newbie at WordPress/blogging.) * Thanks, * [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/) * (@miklb) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/#post-496847) * A link your your blog. * Thread Starter [joycejnr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joycejnr/) * (@joycejnr) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/#post-496856) * Ahhhh, sorry…I should have known, but I don’t have a blog. I’m trying to understand the Gazette blog so I can use it for a blog I want to start. Should I post any of the .php files from the Gazette blog that I’ve been looking at? * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/#post-496861) * Well, best thing to do is install wp, then install that theme, THEN see what it’s doing, THEN ask questions. * Thread Starter [joycejnr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joycejnr/) * (@joycejnr) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/#post-496862) * I did all the above with a local installation via xampp…once again, my apologies. * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/#post-496871) * Thing is, many times a local install won’t look/act the same online. We can’t help much with themes on local installs, unless it happens to be themes we’re very familiar with. And there’s no way to “troubleshoot” a local install from here. * Thread Starter [joycejnr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joycejnr/) * (@joycejnr) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/#post-496884) * I certainly understand that you can’t see a blog on a local installation. Is the help on this forum limited to the owners of the blogs in question? I was hoping since I found the theme on this forum – [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/73458?replies=21](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/73458?replies=21)– and it is not proprietary/copywrited, that it wouldn’t matter especially since it seemed to be a generic question. I should mention that I received an updated version from the author of the Gazette Theme, but he is too tied up work-wise to assist me further. * My apologies again. * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/#post-496887) * Nothing to apologize for. There’s no such thing as a “generic” theme (other than classic or default – and I reserve judgement on the default). Every theme will be coded differently in the css, and without seeing an in-place install online, it’s almost impossible for anyone not completely familiar with the theme in question to help with tweaks. * This forum is generally for help with online installations; there’s just too much “pie in the sky” with localhost installs. I know about those, I use them myself; and I can tell you from many years of experience that a local install will quite frequently have various differences once online. * Thread Starter [joycejnr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joycejnr/) * (@joycejnr) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/#post-496894) * What is the distinction between looking at the author’s blog and looking at the same blog (if I had it online)? Also, I meant that my *questions* seemed generic, not the theme, in the sense that I haven’t seen anything online that pertains to not having to fill in the title post when one wants to use a heading for a post/page title. * This is my first time since joining/lurking here that I felt the need to ask a question that I couldn’t find the answer to elsewhere, and I hope everyone can bear with my ignorance. * Thread Starter [joycejnr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joycejnr/) * (@joycejnr) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/#post-496898) * I just found a post on by Lorelle that suggests that I might have asked: Is the WP post title box limited to filling in the title only, with nothing else, or do people make it more flexible by, say, playing with the core HTML? * Whew. 😉 * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/#post-496900) * I’m honestly very sorry. I have NO idea what it is you’re wanting to do. Without a very specific online setup to look at, how on earth would anyone know what you mean? * And as for “playing with the core HTML” – I also don’t know what you mean by that. Hacking the core wp files is generally not a good idea, since each upgrade of wp overwrites all the hacks you may have done. * Thread Starter [joycejnr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joycejnr/) * (@joycejnr) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/#post-496921) * 1. The “core HTML” I referred to was in the .php, not the WP code. Apologies again. 2. What is a “very specific online setup” as opposed to the link I provided in my first posting – [http://www.gazette.computersandthings.com/](http://www.gazette.computersandthings.com/)? * Well, let me try to rephrase my last “generic” question only, I’ll forget the first questions regarding the Gazette theme in particular. If you STILL don’t know “how on earth would anyone know what (I) mean,” I’ll give it up. * Here we go: Is a WP “Post Title Box” in a WP theme limited in the sense that the user fills in the title in the title box, and then that title ONLY appears as a plain old title, word for word? * OR is is it possible that a title typed in a title box in the Write Post administration panel can, for example, act as a link – just by changing the theme’s code in some way? * (Depending on your answer, Lorelle’s post might be helpful for me to figure out the questions about the titles in the Gazette post anyway.) * Thanks. * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/#post-496925) * Is the link you’re providing YOUR blog? I had the impression that it was not. * I do not know anything about the theme to which you referred. So can’t help you with that. * The only thing I can tell you is that the post title for a blog post is a (perma) link to the entirety of the post itself. It IS a link by default. * I apologize. I am obviously not able to parse exactly what you’re trying to express. * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/#post-496927) * That’s a semantically incorrect theme (coding). If you have a local install – play around with the Classic (the very simple theme) and with the Default (the very complicated one). After that you’ll understand how WP works… and in every theme installed later you’ll see at once what is default behaviour and what is abberation 🙂 Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 25 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Post Title Question’ is closed to new replies. * 25 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [joycejnr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joycejnr/) * Last activity: [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-question-2/page/2/#post-497225) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics