Is there a way to italicize certain words in the secondary title?
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I love the plugin and we’ve been using it on our blog particularly for track and album reviews. While the practice has been to put as title simply Artist Name – “Song Title” or Artist Name – Album Title, we recently decided to utilize the Secondary Title plugin by entering in the field a compelling headline that is shown as the title when the actual post is visited. However, Secondary Title seems to not recognize the
<i>and</i>tags, which supposedly should italicize any enclosed word. We need this when writing, for example, a headline that goes, “Artist releases 30-track effort Album Title“, which we intend to replace the original title “Artist Name – Album Title“. Is this not a feature of the plugin yet?
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Thanks, @samjoelnang. It sounds like you entered the
<i>tag into the field when editing or adding a post, is that right?This is absolutely possible as you can see in the official documentation I’m working on. I just tried to reproduce your issue with clean WP site and the plugin’s default settings, and it worked as it should.
This is how it looks in the post editor (I assume you do it the same way from what you’ve told me):
And, under “Settings” -> “Secondary Title”, I chose the following title format:
%secondary_title%: %title%“Auto show” must be enabled for this to work. Also, make sure that you don’t restrict the display only show for posts in certain categories, specific post IDs, or post types. Leaving them all blank means they apply to all posts.
The result looks like this:
Now, if you still have this issue, it’s most definitely your theme that strips out HTML tags in titles for security reasons. While this is crucial and also implemented in Secondary Title (e.g., you can’t use
<script>tags and others that may be abused for cross-site scripting (XSS), but I limited it to allow general formatting, including<i>.What you can do if you’re still facing this problem:
- Go to “Settings” -> “Secondary Title”
- Wrap the secondary title (or which part you’d like to italicize it) inside a
<span>tag and give it a distinctive CSS class, for examplesecondary-title. The full title format would look like this:%secondary_title%: %title% - Having done that, head over to “Appearance” -> “Customize” and use the CSS area to style this particular class.
In your HTML source code which you can view in your browser, the code surrounding your title should look like this then:
Here’s one example of what you could put in the CSS editor if you use the
secondary-titleas class:.secondary-title {
font-style: italic;
}If that works, it’s a good idea to narrow down the scope since it now applies to every class that’s called
secondary-titleeverywhere on your website.I’ve had quick look on your website structure and this CSS code seems to be a good way to only show the secondary title in italic on post lists and single posts:
.wp-block-post, .wp-block-post-content {
.secondary-title {
font-style: italic;
}
}I hope this all makes sense. If you need more assistance, don’t hesitate to ask. And if it worked, please let me know so I can close this ticket. If you’re pleased with the plugin and my support, I’d also be very grateful if you’d give my plugin a little review ??
By the way, I’m working on a comprehensive, easy-to-understand documentation for Secondary Title that you can find here:
https://docs.kolja-nolte.com/secondary-title/
If you like, I’d be thankful if you had any feedback.
Puh, now you made me write all that stuff, and it was completely useless? Just kidding, it’s me who keeps misunderstanding it ?? To be frank, I’m still not entirely sure if I get it right, so please bear with me.
As general info: You can use HTML tags to style the output; you know that part already. You can use it both on the settings page for the “Title Format” which will be applied to every post title (and therefore replaces it) as well as in individual posts via the input field. Note that some tags are stripped for security reasons, but
<i>is definitely allowed.If I understand you correctly, you want to have two different versions of a title that both have different title formats. To stay with our aging metal friends, the post titles on the front page look like this (I’ll leave out the styling for now):
Metallica - Master of PuppetsAnd when you visit that post, you want it to turn into this:
Metallica reissues Master of Puppetswhere only the secondary title is styled.
I’m sorry, but this use case isn’t possible with the “Auto Show” function. You’d have to manually do this in your theme (or better: child theme). That’s what the manual mode is for.
Before I go on, please tell me if I got it correctly this time and if you’d like me to give you a code snippet that you can put into the
functions.phpfile of your (child theme) to achieve that or if that’s too much hassle for you.I’m also in the process of updating the documentation with a lot more information and examples, but as of right now, the only relevant section would be this. But your use case – assuming I got it right – is a good idea to address on the Exampels page.
Hi @samjoelnang,
Last and probably most crucial question: Are you still using the “Title Format” option in any way or does it contain only
%title%?And I saw that you’re using two secondary titles in your example. Where would you enter the two titles that are to be italicized? In the input field in the post editor, separated by a comma? And is the
<i>format likely to change at some point, maybe into a<bold>(since the<i>styling tag is currently hard-coded in the snippet)?Edit: This is the solution I came up with while waiting for your reply:
The input field for the secondary title on the add/edit post screen looks like this:
Master of Puppets, The BendsOf course, this also works with just one or more words.
The original title, though, is the full title, without styling the specific words:
Listen to Metallica's?Master of Puppets?reimagined to the style of Radiohead's?The BendsAll this requires Secondary Title’s “Auto Show” function to be set to “On” and the “Title Format” to be simply:
%title%However, as asked above, I’m not sure whether you expect a version of title on the front-page and a different version of the title when viewing a single post, i.e (italicization included):
Front page:
New version of Metallica's?Master of Puppets?releasedSingle post:
Listen to Metallica's?Master of Puppets?reimagined to the style of Radiohead's?The BendsPlease have a look and let me know.
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