Title: two post titles?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# two post titles?

 *  Resolved [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/)
 * (@doodlebee)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-post-titles/)
 * I’ve gotten around this before with some CSS, but it’s not working for me this
   time.
 * Basically, what I need is, in the title section when I create a post, I need 
   to keep my posts grouped together by month, So I’ve been putting in (for the 
   title) “November 2006 – post title”. Then, in the body area, the first line I
   add is the actual name of the post: “post title”. This way, when I do certain
   things, I can easily see which posts go with what month. I use CSS to hide the
   actualy title, and place h1 tags around the one with in the body and style that
   one ot be shown.
 * This has worked great so far – I can have the actual title be something completely
   different than what shows on the page as the main header (came in really handy
   when I had a site that needed the sidebar linsk to simply say “About” but they
   wanted the page header to say something compeltely different). However, now I’m
   running into an inssue that this workaround *can’t* fix.
 * So is there a way I can somehow add a secondary title field between the post 
   title field that’s already there, and the body field? It doesn’t necessaily have
   to be a new field in the admin area – although that would be nice – but just 
   some way, perhaps in the mina index template by using some kind of PHP call, 
   I could get that secondary header?
 * I have an alternate workaround, but it’s way ugly, and I’d rather avoid it if
   there’s a better way.

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 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-post-titles/#post-472051)
 * Can’t you use custom fields for this?
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-post-titles/#post-472052)
 * Couple ways I can think of to do this.
 * **First method** is a bit of PHP which parses “November 2006 -” from your post
   title and displays just “post title”:
 * `<?php
    $post_title = preg_replace('/^w+ +d{4} +-/', '', get_the_title()); echo
   apply_filters('the_title', $post_title); ?>
 * The [preg_replace()](http://php.net/preg_replace) stuff can be a little much 
   for the uninitiated, but basically it performs an expression match on “MONTHNAME
   YEAR -” and replaces it with an empty value. Then the echo line (which outputs
   the _suffixed_ post title) passes the `$post_title` var through the WordPress
   function apply_filters() so any WordPress or plugin title filters are run it 
   first.
 * **Second method** is more attune to the WordPress Way: Enter the “post title”
   as a custom field.
 * Using ‘title’ as your key, and the _real_ title for a post as the value, you 
   can implement the following in your templates to collect and display the ‘title’
   custom field:
 * `<?php
    $post_title = get_post_custom_values('title'); echo apply_filters('the_title',
   $post_title[0]); ?>
 * get_post_custom_values() returns the value(s) of the ‘title’ meta key to `$post_title`.
   The second line should be familiar, but `$post_title` is now an array (you can
   have more than one custom field with the same key attached to a post). So we 
   specify the first array key/value with `$post_title[0]`.
 * EDIT: Yes, vkaryl. Yes you can…
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-post-titles/#post-472054)
 * Heh…. thanks. I never really know, ’cause I’ve never used them – but it did seem
   logical (oh, yeah, I KNOW someone’s going to laugh about the juxtaposition of“
   vkaryl” and “logical”….)
 *  Thread Starter [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/)
 * (@doodlebee)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-post-titles/#post-472208)
 * Oh Good Lord. I’m an idiot. If you could see my face right now…
 * Thanks a bunch guys 🙂
 * (thinks there should be an option up there for “resolved due to discovery of 
   exactly how stupid the original poster was” – or maybe “resolved due to ‘DUH’
   moment”)
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-post-titles/#post-472216)
 * *laughing* doo-bee…. the only ones who would ever use it would be the 2 or 3 
   of us who are female….
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-post-titles/#post-472220)
 * I dunno. I’ve had my share of DUH moments…

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