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Can you get the title of a blog post outside the loop?
Problem is, you are using that inside the loop to display the title for all of your blog entries on the page and that won’t do you any good when trying to fetch the page title outside the loop. If you try to use this function for the page title outside the loop, all you get is the title of the first post on the page.
How to display the title of a WordPress page?
Select the page we created in Step 1 as your ‘Posts page’ In the final step of this tutorial we will display the title for the posts / blog page in the WordPress template theme file. Open the index.php template theme file, then copy the code below and paste it wherever you want to display the title in your code.
How can I change the title of my WordPress blog?
It is important that your theme displays the proper title on the page no matter what settings a user has on their site. As you probably are already aware, a user can go to ‘Settings’ -> ‘Reading’ in the WordPress admin menu and change what pages are used for the front page and the posts page (aka blog page)…
Is there a way to remove a title from a WordPress post?
The Title Remover plugin allows you to completely remove titles using your WordPress admin panel. Unlike other WordPress title removing plugins, Title Remover completely removes titles instead of just hiding with CSS and Java. The plugin works by adding a meta-box beside the post creation form in the WordPress admin interface.
What is the purpose of the loop in WordPress?
To put it simply, the Loop is true to its name: it loops through each post retrieved for the current page one at a time and performs the action specified in your theme. You can use the Loop for a number of different things, for example to:
Do you need a title for your WordPress theme?
This little tidbit is for all you WordPress themers out there. It is important that your theme displays the proper title on the page no matter what settings a user has on their site.
What should the end of the loop be?
In the above example, the end of the Loop is shown with an endwhile and endif. The Loop must always begin with the same if and while statements, as mentioned above and must end with the same end statements. Any template tags that you wish to apply to all posts must exist between the beginning and ending statements.