Title: Remove post title
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Remove post title

 *  [Odenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murmelin/)
 * (@murmelin)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-post-title/)
 * Hi!
 * Im trying to remove my post title and add a fake title in the post (between the
   image and the text).
 * But I cant make it work. First I added display: none to ‘post h2’, but since 
   I want my “fake title” in the post to be h2, it doesnt work. Then I tried to 
   remove the post title by puting display:none to ‘post a’. It did remove post 
   titles, but also post images and my link within thumbnails, so that didnt work
   either.
 * Anyone knows how to do this? I would be very grateful for some help, since Im
   really stuck.
 * Her is [my site](http://www.astaform.se/bastard-forlag-logotyp//).

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 *  [iteamweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iteamweb/)
 * (@iteamweb)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-post-title/#post-1770068)
 * Please try to write the same code for
    .entry-title this class , so it may help.
   this will be in loop.php
 *  Thread Starter [Odenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murmelin/)
 * (@murmelin)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-post-title/#post-1770180)
 * Sorry, I dont understand. Were in the loop should I write entry-title?
 * Here is the loop in my index.php:
 *  <?php if(have_posts()) : ?><?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
 *  <div class=”post” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>
 * 
 * <?php } ?>
 *  <div class=”entry”>
 *  <?php the_content(); ?>
 *  </div>
 * </div>
 *  <?php endwhile; ?>
 *  <div class=”navigation”>
 *  <?php posts_nav_link(); ?>
 *  </div>
 *  <?php else : ?>
 *  <div class=”post”>
 *  <h4><?php _e(‘Not Found’); ?></h4>
 *  </div>
 *  <?php endif; ?>
 * </div>
 * Very thankful for help
 *  [shawnyuan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawnyuan/)
 * (@shawnyuan)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-post-title/#post-1770195)
 * Where in the code do you want to add the fake title? And what do you mean by 
   fake title?
 *  [jakep_sf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakep_sf/)
 * (@jakep_sf)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-post-title/#post-1770196)
 * Alternatively you could use a theme that supports nav_menu
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_nav_menu](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_nav_menu)
   You can then create your pages and name them whatever you wish to display on 
   the page and in the _navigation label_ title it what you wish it to display in
   the navigation.
 *  Thread Starter [Odenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murmelin/)
 * (@murmelin)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-post-title/#post-1770197)
 * I want the post to start with an image. Right below the the image, I want a headline.
   For SEO reasons, I want this headline to be <h2>, and I need the post title (
   that is usually above the post entry) to be <h3> and not show (other than in 
   the sidebar). Under the <h2>headline (fake headline), I want the text.
 * So, any one has a solution to this? I really appritiate it.
 *  Thread Starter [Odenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murmelin/)
 * (@murmelin)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-post-title/#post-1770198)
 * jakep_sf:
 * Sorry, I dont get it. And I also dont want to change my theme.
 *  [shawnyuan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawnyuan/)
 * (@shawnyuan)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-post-title/#post-1770199)
 * Just do that in the visual editor.
 * Put the image, then put the title you want and then put the text.
 *  Thread Starter [Odenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murmelin/)
 * (@murmelin)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-post-title/#post-1770201)
 * But the problem is that it wont work.
 * If you look at [my site](http://www.astaform.se/akesson-maleri-bildekal/), you
   can that there is a title above the image and one below. I want to get rid of
   the one above the image.
 * To to that I thaught I put <h3>tags around the post title in the loop, like this:
 * – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
    <?php if(have_posts()):?
   ><?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <div class=”post” id=”post-<?php 
   the_ID(); ?>”> <h3>” title=”<?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></h3>––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
 * In my CSS i have put:
 * .post h2{font-family: Arial, Helvetica, san-serif;
    font-size: 12px; letter-spacing:
   0.1em; color:black; text-transform:uppercase; }
 * .post h3{display:none;}
 * And then I have put <h2>tags around the headline in the post editor.
 * The wired thing is that the <h3>tag dont work. When I look at my source file,
   the post title part in the loop is surrounded by <h2>tags instead of the <h3>
   tags in my index file.
 * Anyone knows why this happens? Why is the <h3>tags in my index file replaced 
   by <h2>tags?
 *  [Manuel Schmalstieg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/targz-1/)
 * (@targz-1)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-post-title/#post-1770202)
 * If i understand what you intend to do, the smartest thing might be to use a **
   Custom Field** (which you add to the post, below the editor interface). Let’s
   say you name it “FakeTitle”.
 * In your theme, you would modify the `single.php` file rather than `index.php`(
   or perhaps both, depending if the fake title should appear on your front page
   as well).
 * In your loop you would replace the `<?php the_title(); ?>` stuff with something
   like that:
 *     ```
       <?php
       $fake_title = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'FakeTitle', true);
       //get the FakeTitle field, if it exists
       if($fake_title !== '') { //if it exists
       echo $fake_title; //display the fake title
       } else {
       the_title(); //display the post title
       } ?>
       ```
   
 *  [Manuel Schmalstieg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/targz-1/)
 * (@targz-1)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-post-title/#post-1770203)
 * …or you could remove the line `echo $fake_title;`from the code above … which 
   would mean that IF you define a FakeTitle, no post title gets displayed. And 
   you would then add it manually inside your post.
 *  Thread Starter [Odenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murmelin/)
 * (@murmelin)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-post-title/#post-1770204)
 * Thanks a lot everyone for your suggestions and for trying to help me!
 * The solution was really simple; I made the changes with the <h3>tag in both the
   index ande the single files (like tar.gz suggested).
 * And now it works! The post title is gone and the headline in the post is <h2>.
 * Thanks a lot everyone!
 *  Thread Starter [Odenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murmelin/)
 * (@murmelin)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-post-title/#post-1770205)
 * Hm…
 * Undfortunately, I was a littel fast to say it worked. It ony works partly. When
   just one post is showing, like [this](http://www.astaform.se/leif-akesson-maleri-logotyp/),
   it looks fine. But when the categories are shown, the post title also is showing,
   and surronded wiht <h2>tags instead of the <h3>tags that is stated in the theme.
 * Can anyone figure out why the title is changed to <h2>?
 *  [Manuel Schmalstieg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/targz-1/)
 * (@targz-1)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-post-title/#post-1770206)
 * When the **categories** are shown, WordPress will use either `category.php` or,
   if that file doesn’t exist, `archive.php` – so you need to customize those as
   well.
 * At that point, you should have a look at the [WordPress template hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy)
   to get a better understanding of your theme.
 * When I started customizing themes, I found [this article](http://wphacks.com/how-to-hack-wordpress-theme-template-pages/)
   a very useful starting point.
 *  Thread Starter [Odenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murmelin/)
 * (@murmelin)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-post-title/#post-1770215)
 * Oh. Im stupid.
 * Now that I created category and archive files and placed <h3>tags there it works
   perfect.
 * And thank you for the link, It was very helpful.
 * Have a nice weekend!

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