page titles

Yes,
it might affect your SEO.
You can try a css/jquery solution to hide the title to the eyes, but let it be there.If i was to do that i would use the following class for my page-titles instead of removing them ??

h1.hidden {display:none;}

Hi,

That’s sounds like a really good idea. The only question I have is this, and admittedly it will seem simple to you, but does the h1 only control the Page titles? I’m learning by doing on this redesign, and I’m not as knowledgeable as I pretend… Thanx for your interest.

Mohit Kumar could you explain that a little better please?
I very much do not want a viewer of the site to see the titles of the pages.

I do believe I have found my problem in the code. Orignally I removed the code for the page title in page.php and behold the title was still there.

Well my theme is set up for two columns with content left and my theme actually has another bit of code for my actual template. It’s called Two Columns, content left page template.

I’m looking at it in the editor and I have come across the following code: <?php echo sprintf(‘<h1 class=”storytitle”>%
s</h1>’,get_the_title());?>

First is that the code I need to fix to hide the title of my pages on the pages themselves and second how can I use the code you spoke of above in this string of code?

Any help would be great thanks.

You need not to remove the titles from the code, just use the following css code and it will help. You might need to tweak it a little bit though.

.page > h1.title {display: none}

check out this tutorial i just wrote ??

I hate to bother you more but the above did not work out to be a solution to my problem.

I’m very new to code and have no formal training in the matter. In fact this site I’m working on is almost the first crash course I’ve had with all of this code. I could not locate the place where I could insert that bit of ccs code. I am also running Internet Explorer so that bit about firefox or chrome was irrelevant to me at this point.

Now I’m running a pre – made theme for my wordpress site so some of the normal files you would find for the default WordPress theme are not available to me. I’ve been doing a lot of research on this matter and I am still coming up short. Not from lack of understanding but lack of actual knowledge.

That being said I’ve come a long way and I understand the code I need to change is located in files associated with the theme I am using. In this case the Theme is Adventure Journal.

I have access to the following files that make up this particular theme:

404.php, contexture.php, options.php, archive.php, author.php,

category.php, comments-popup.php, comments.php, footer.php,

functions.php, header.php, index.php, loop.php, page.php,

search.php, single.php (Single Post), tag.php,

and then . . .

(One column, no sidebars Page Template) template-onecol.php

(Three columns, content center Page Template) template-threecol.php

(Two columns, content left Page Template) template-twocol_left.php

(Two columns, content right Page Template) template-twocol_right.php

Style.css (Stylesheet)

style-ie.css

The above are all the files associated with my theme.

As a side note I have a sidebar set up with my page content to the left. <- – – – Reason for editing post.

So the question continues as follows:
Where do I find the neccessary code to change so that my page titles no longer appear. Furthermore what do I change the code to so the titles (again) no longer appear.

I’m sorry for this rediculously long post however the plugin that was originally working to do this for me the “easy” way is now making the title Home not show up on the navigation bar so the plugin is no longer an option. Plus I’d like to do this the “hard” way or the “right” way if possible.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this post. Any help would be great.

@wp-user – you may not be aware of it, but you have hijacked someone else’s thread – which is not the way to get help on these forums. Please start your own thread.

My apologies can we please delete the above post and this one and I’ll copy and paste this over into another thread. Thanks.

@tomdolan – to answer your question – depending on your theme, you can generally use the existing CSS to add the “display: none;”. But without seeing your site, it’s hard to know or help more specifically.

Also, be aware that “hiding” using CSS MAY have SEO impacts as well – if you read Google Webmaster Tools info, hiding text is warned against, but it is widely done, so how much of a problem it really is, is subject to much debate.

WPyogi – I think you’re right. After spending many weeks on this project, I’m looking at the smallest details, sometimes repeatedly. I think I’m caught-up in the minutia.
Thanx for the comment/advice.

Yep, happens to lots of us :). Are you using an SEO plugin? (Good content is almost always the most important thing.)

WPyogi – Yes, I switched to the newish Yoast plugin and as far as I can tell, which isn’t very far, it seems to be ok. I believe my content, mostly videos, is good as it’s all based on my own growth and experience working in media. I’ll begin producing again, but location has moved from LA to Tokyo, and the long time away has allowed me to refocus, redefine, and commit to outcomes. Growth can be exasperating but ultimately rewarding. Thanx for your interest.