How to remove "Blog Archive" from your WordPress post title
The Title section in Header.php contains the codes which displays your WordPress title. This is important because search engine listings will display your post title followed by a description of your post. I began to notice that all of my listings had the words Blog Archive in them which was unneccesary and caused part of the titles displayed to be cut off.
To remove the words Blog Archive, do this:
- Log into your self hosted WordPress blog and click Presentation
- Click on Theme Editor
- On the right handside of your browser window, select Header from the list of theme files
- Look for this line of code just a few lines from the top.<title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
- Remove this section => <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive <?php } ?>
The remaining portion should look like this:
<title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
- Click Update File to save the file.
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Cheers mate! I only picked this up once I decided to try a quick Google search on one of my posts.
What I did notice though, is that it still appends a >> between the name and the title. Is there a way of removing that? eHowToGuru has the same thing:
eHowToGuru >> How to remove…
Here’s how to remove the >> or » from your blog title:
- Go to your wordpress installation directory, and under wp-includes located the file general-template.php
- Look for the function name wp_title and change the separator as follows:
- Instead of : function wp_title($sep = ‘»â€™, $display = true) {
Use this: function wp_title($sep = â€, $display = true) {
Awesome! Thanks a lot for the guidance.
Thanks! I just implemented it on my own site after noticing that just like yours, Google was segmenting my titles. Great fast fix; thanks for the heads up!
Eternally grateful for this! I asked this question of some people I thought might know how to remove the text, but nobody knew. This is exactly what I needed.
HI, thanks a lot for this. It really helped me out!
Thanks. you explained it very easily. I was browsing around for hours, but could not do so. Your post is quite simple and useful
Thanks! That worked perfectly!
thanks a bunch and thank kathy up top for zooming this post. i never would have found it.
wp_title($sep = ‘ ‘, $display = true) {
i had to use this instead
thanks though. it helped a lot.
Handy!
Wow, thanks just what I needed!
Thanks to the article, Now there is more reason to comment than ever before! Good post… I found it via Google. They most love you!
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Thanks! This sorted out my issues one time!
Thanks a lot! Nice and quick fix!
self hosted? what is this? can i remove “Blog Archive” if i just host my blog on wordpress? like xiptag.wordpress.com
It’a also possible to delete the phrase at the file sidebar.php & then upload via ftp.
Great site and information – i recommend this site
i have same same kind a problem. Archive is appearing in title.Now i have remove this problem …. thanks for your kind help
Super, helped me out a lot as I automatically use twitter to post my latest posts so the update is now “Blog Archive” free! 10 out of 10!
Thanks… this was helpful.
Thank you very much , i have solved the problem.
This is one great piece of advice. The “Blog Archive” tag is actually a flaw in your SEO efforts.
That is surprising… I just hope somebody can help you with the problem
Thanks!! I just changed my site. Congrats on being #1 is g’s search results!
Thanks for the info!
Thanks a lot for this tips
Thank you very much I hope after remove these things from my blog titles it will help to improve the SEO too