Changing title on browser tab

If your user account is an administrator, you can get at the header.php code at Dashboard > Appearance > Editor.

If you don’t, you may have to edit the file manually by downloading the actual file from your ftp server (it will be in /wp-content/themes/your-theme-name/header.php), editing it using a plain text editor (NOT MICROSOFT WORD – TextEdit works on Mac, NotePad on Windows), and reuploading it. You will want to make sure you keep a backup copy of the original in case you change something accidentally.

Have you used FTP before? Filezilla or Cyberduck will work for you, but you’ll need the ftp login information from your admin or hosting company.

hmmm no I haven’t used FTP before. I believe the account I am using is an administrator one, but I do not see the option of being able to edit the header. I go to Appearance, and then it just gives me the options: themes, widgets, menus, header, background. No “editor”. How can I assure that the account I am using administrative account?

Here is the code I have for the home page:

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Where did you copy this code from? It’s not your header.php file code.

If you’re an admin, you will be able to see a tab called ‘Users’ in your Dashboard menu (between Plugins and Tools). Clicking this will give a list of Users and their roles. If you can’t see ‘Editor’ in the Appearance menu, however, it’s less likely that your user permissions are set to Administrator.

Are you able to get ftp login information from someone?

Strange. I am using the only log-in username/password we have. How could it be that it is not an admin account, then? Well, here is what I did. I went to the website https://www.elamanimalhospital.com. I right-clicked on the banner/picture up top and selected “inspect element”. Code came up/ I was FINALLY able to see where it said <title>dogs and cats</title>, but I when I went to change it, it does not save the changes. I am almost 100% sure that is not the way to go about making the change to that piece of code, BUT…at least I found it, finally. So I am one step closer! Haha.

I copied the code from the home page using the wordpress dashboard

Yes, unfortunately ‘inspect element’ is just a tool that allows you to look at code, and sometimes test code changes on the fly. It doesn’t apply your changes permanently.

I’m not sure where you meant you got this code from, but you should not be looking for the code for the BODY of the page, you’re looking for a file called header.php. This file is the code that determines the header for every page of your site, and that is certainly where your <title> tag is. I really recommend you take a look at this tutorial that explains the files that make up WordPress themes.

As I mentioned before, there are only two ways to access that file:

a) with an administrator account, log into your WordPress dashboard, select Appearance and then Editor from the menu. Once you see a list of template files (index.php, header.php, footer.php, style.css, etc) you can choose header.php and make your change.

b) if you have the ftp login information from your hosting company account, you can use an ftp program to access your server files, download header.php, make your changes, and reupload it. See my instructions in the posts above!

Hi.

I have a front page that displayed the name of the website until today (when I updated my WP and my plugins), although I am not sure this is the source of the problem.

Today I see that instead of “Land and Sea Journal,” the page tab reads “l”

Any suggestions?

I tried inserting the title in header php.:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”&gt;
<html xmlns=”https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”&gt;
<head profile=”https://gmpg.org/xfn/11″&gt;
<title>Land and Sea Journal</title>
<?php woo_meta(); ?>

Thanks, DBD

@day Blakely Donaldson

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your issue might be theme dependant, as this line <?php woo_meta(); ?> seems to be responsible for the meta title; ideally ask the theme’s developer for support.

Hi, I’m also a newbie… and having the same problem: my home page which is : fysiokoster.nl shows https://www.fysiokoster.nl/ as tab title.
Whatever I did in the head section of the header.psp:

<head>
<meta charset=”utf-8″>
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=edge,chrome=1″>

<title><?php wp_title(‘ – Fysiotherapie Zaandam, Koog aan de Zaan’, true, ‘right’); ?></title>
<meta name=”description” content=””>
<meta name=”author” content=””>
etc, etc, …

Or in the home page itself: <head><title>Title I like</title></head> won’t change the title.
Can anyone pls. help?

Thx a lot in advance.

I have a related problem: I often have ten Edit Page < This Blog or Edit Page < That Blog tabs open in my browser, and those tab titles don’t tell me which is which.

I can use a favicon to distinguish blogs, so I would really, really like those browser tabs to tell me something usefully specific, like the Post/Page title, e.g., [fav] Ed: Ratatouille or [fav] Ed: Bouillabaisse. That way, even when I have lots of tabs open and they’re truncated to [f]Ed: Rat or [f]Ed: Bou I can see at a glance what I’m doing.

I’ve tracked this down far enough to see that edit_item holds part of the solution, but at least in my themes, edit_item gets buried in arrays inside of arrays.

If anyone can shine even a little light into this darkness, I would really appreciate it!

I’ve solved the problem with this line in the header.css:

<title><?php if(is_home()) { echo bloginfo(“name”); echo ” | “; echo bloginfo(“description”); } else { echo wp_title(” | “, false, right); echo bloginfo(“name”); } ?></title>