Remove certain words from title of posts?

Hi @wings69,

You won’t find any settings or options that can do this kind of stuff. For this you’ll need some custom coding work ??

You can use the undocumented wpp_the_title filter hook to modify the post title before WPP renders it on screen. For example:

/**
 * Removes 'List', 'of', and 'Movies' from post title.
 *
 * @param  string  $post_title  The post title.
 * @return string  $post_title  The (modified) post title.
 */
function trim_popular_posts_titles($post_title) {
    $title_arr = explode(' ', $post_title);
    $omit_words = array('list', 'of', 'movies');
    
    $new_title_arr = array_udiff($title_arr, $omit_words, 'strcasecmp');
    
    return implode(' ', $new_title_arr);
}
add_filter('wpp_the_title', 'trim_popular_posts_titles');

Untested but I think it should work.

Oh wow – thank you so much both for the prompt response and the very detailed response! I will test that out tomorrow. Either way it is a great starting point.

Thanks so much. I use your plugin on a few sites and it is great. Sending a donation your way just now for the awesome support! Cheers.

Don’t mention it, glad I could help! And thanks a lot for donating, I really appreciate the gesture ??

I am having the same issue but using an RSS Feed aggregator. I don’t want <div> and </div> showing up on my titles. Where exactly would I implement this section of code?

Hi @davegee423,

The code above is specific to this plugin so I’m not sure it’ll work for you: it removes certain words from post titles rendered by WordPress Popular Posts.

If you want to remove <div> tags from an RSS feed and you have access to the site that generates said feed then you can use this filter hook to do so: the_title_rss.

If you don’t have access to the site that generates the feed then you have to check whether your RSS aggregator provides a way to remove <div> tags from titles.

If all of the above sounds a bit too technical for you, you may want to consider hiring a developer so they can help you with this stuff.