Controlling the title of the pages with images

Try looking for attachment.php or image.php.

odd but i don’t have neither of both in my template (socrates)

and few other templates i checked, templates with those names don’t exist ??

They are optional. WordPress will fall back to using index.php if they don’t exist. The Twenty Ten theme has an attachment.php template file that you could use as an example to build a similar template for your theme.

Thank you so much! I’ll look into that!

the only place where i can find reference to the <title> tag is header.php

and won’t editing that affect all the other titles on the site? ??

What title are you talking about? The title in the browser tab? Or the displayed name of the image within the page?

The title in the browser tab, the one determined by the <title> </title> tag

In that case, you need to examine the code that is generating the <title> in header.php and possibly add the is_attachment conditional.

ah i don’t even have is_attachment in the header.php in this theme ??

I don’t see it in twentyten’s header also, but i guess that’s because it has attachment.php?

It’s just that your theme appears to be something slightly funky when creating the <title>. Twenty Ten doesn’t, so it doesn’t need a special case for attachments.

yeah, so i guess the best i could do is add is_attachment condition to the header of my theme?

Along with some code that will generate the image/attachment <title> that you want, yes.

here is what i have for title in my header.php file

<title><?php $metaSettings = get_option("metaSettings"); if(is_home()) { if($metaSettings['sitetitle'] and $metaSettings['sitetitle'] != '') {echo $metaSettings['sitetitle'];} else {bloginfo('name'); }} else { the_title(); }?></title>

i want to add condition for is_attachment, and set custom title when the page is attachment page, what would be the right way to do that?

Thank you!

Looking at that code, your pages – including image attachment pages – will only display the post/image title.