How to Remove “Category: ” before Archive Title?

Hi @momotaro990,

If you want to remove “Category:” from the Google search results, hiding that part on the page won’t help you, since Google retrieves the title from the <title> attribute on the page (the one shown in your browser tab/window). To change that, you’ll need to install a SEO plugin like Yoast SEO and change the title attribute for archive pages.

— Anders

I completely understand what you mean. What I really wanted to do is basically remove “Category: ” completely through the theme editor (somehow).

I use Yoast SEO right from the beginning when I made my website (about a year and a half ago). I edit nearly all pages what it’s gonna look like on search results.

All my archive pages have been edited to look what I want (without “Category: “). I look at the search preview built-in by Yoast SEO and no “Category: ” whatsoever.

But things changed since I found my web on search result. I see “Category: ” before my title. I think Google takes the actual archive-title on my pages instead of one I edited in Yoast SEO. So if that’s the case then, I need to remove “Category: ” from my pages right?

Do you have any idea how to delete/remove “Category: ” right from the theme editor?

I don’t want to hide it, I want to remove it completely.

Btw, I’m sorry for not making my question clear enough.

@momotaro990 I see. Hiding it with CSS is pretty easy, but to remove the output completely, you’ll have to create a child theme and add the following code to its functions.php file:

add_filter( 'get_the_archive_title_prefix', '__return_empty_string' );

— Anders

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Anders Norén.

It works like a charm. This is what I wanted.

Thank you so much, Anders.

Btw, I got one more thing to ask (if you don’t mind).

Can you please give me another code to remove comment-URL (website box in the comment section)? People keep spamming over and over again.

Once again, thanks for the code.

My pleasure! Spammers will still be able to submit a URL even if you hide the field in CSS, so I’d recommend you to install a plugin to do it instead.

This one looks like it should do it: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/remove-comment-websiteurl-box/ (It’s old, but should still work on recent versions of WordPress.)

Alright, I’ll check that out. Btw, thanks for the code, you’ve been very helpful.

I think I’ll update the status of this thread as resolved.

See Ya. Anders.