Page title not showing on posts page

I think you’d need to pretty much hardcode it in your theme’s index.php file:

<?php if( is_home() ) :?>
<h1>News</h1>
<?php endif;?>

But “News” page is not home page. “Home” is home page, “News” is just one of several pages.

<?php if( is_page('news') ) :?>
<h1>News</h1>
<?php endif;?>

Change ‘news’ to the actual page-name or page ID.

This would go in the template assigned to the page, or page.php, or index.php if you don’t have either of these.

Although I agree with esmi solution, if the news page is set as the posts page, it should respond to is_home()..

hm…

Is there any way to get the page title from database? Because I use qtranslate (ok, I can hardcode this aswell), but anyway it were nicer if I could use something like <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>.

I’m not too sure what you mean here, the_title() does get the title from the database! Or you can use get_the_title(id);

Thanks xdesi! I have figured it out!

I did a bit of investigation which temlate file is used for pages, which for blog.

So in my case index.php is used for blog. So I have added <h2><?php echo get_the_title($page_id) ?></h2>. So now it is completely flexible. If I assign blog to any page it works correctly.

Otherwise, the_title() returns the title of the post (if used in blog template file), not the page title. So if you use it outside of the loop, you just get the first post title.