Title: Title formatting problem
Last modified: October 11, 2025

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# Title formatting problem

 *  [agnessmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/agnessmith/)
 * (@agnessmith)
 * [8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/title-formatting-problem/)
 * Hello,
 * My code is: [pagelist child_of=”current” title_li=”List of pages”] but the title
   doesn’t work right. It shows: </p> <h2>List of pages</h2> <p>
 * How do I dix it? Thank you.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ftitle-formatting-problem%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [blwd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blwd/)
 * (@blwd)
 * [7 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/title-formatting-problem/#post-18708286)
 * I have this same issue – html tags are showing as plain text in titles – and 
   resolved it by rolling back to version 5.7. Both 5.8 and 5.9 have the issue.
 *  Thread Starter [agnessmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/agnessmith/)
 * (@agnessmith)
 * [7 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/title-formatting-problem/#post-18708291)
 * Thank you for confirming that I’m not going mad LOL!

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 * Last activity: [7 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/title-formatting-problem/#post-18708291)
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