Remove “Category:”, “Tag:”, “Author:” from the_archive_title

I have the following code in my theme’s archive.php:

<?php the_archive_title( '<h1 class="page-title">', '</h1>' ); ?>

This gives me titles like “Category: Russia”, “Tag: America”, “Author: John”.

I would like to remove the “Category:”, “Tag:” and “Author:” part and just display the category, tag and author names.

Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

Thank you.

Answers:

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Method 1

You can extend the get_the_archive_title filter which I’ve mentioned in this answer

add_filter('get_the_archive_title', function ($title) {
    if (is_category()) {
        $title = single_cat_title('', false);
    } elseif (is_tag()) {
        $title = single_tag_title('', false);
    } elseif (is_author()) {
        $title = '<span class="vcard">' . get_the_author() . '</span>';
    } elseif (is_tax()) { //for custom post types
        $title = sprintf(__('%1$s'), single_term_title('', false));
    } elseif (is_post_type_archive()) {
        $title = post_type_archive_title('', false);
    }
    return $title;
});

Method 2

Use function single_term_title()

Method 3

For CPT title Without word: ‘Archive’:

If you are building custom archive template for a CPT, and want to output just the title of the CPT with no extra word like “Archive” use following function instead:

post_type_archive_title();

From developer.wordpress.org

Method 4

I feel like this is over simplifying things, but this is what I did…

<h1><?php echo str_replace("Archives: ", "", get_the_archive_title()); ?></h1>

Method 5

as of WordPress 5.5 you can remove the prefix with this hook:

add_filter('get_the_archive_title_prefix','__return_false');

Method 6

echo '<h1 class="page-title">' . single_cat_title( '', false ) . '</h1>';
in taxonomy-category.php outside public of theme.

Method 7

I would use a filter and put it in a file functions.php

add_filter( 'get_the_archive_title', 'replaceCategoryName'); 
   function replaceCategoryName ($title) {

   $title =  single_cat_title( '', false );
   return $title; 
}

Method 8

You can use the following to just have only the title without the prefix

single_cat_title();

Method 9

Assuming the format is always: Prefix: Archive Name, we can just find the first colon followed by a space, and only show the content after this, using get_the_archive_title() with PHP’s substr() and strpos() functions.

<?php // Only show the portion of the string following the first ": "
  echo substr(get_the_archive_title(), strpos(get_the_archive_title(), ': ') + 2);
?>

Method 10

add_filter('post_type_archive_title', '__return_empty_string', 5);

Method 11

directory: wp-includes

file: general-template.php

find function: get_the_archive_title()
change:

if ( is_category() ) {
        $title = sprintf( __( 'Category: %s' ), single_cat_title( '', false ) );
    } elseif ( is_tag() ) {
        $title = sprintf( __( 'Tag: %s' ), single_tag_title( '', false ) );
    } elseif ( is_author() ) {
        $title = sprintf( __( 'Autor: %s' ), '<span class="vcard">' . get_the_author() . '</span>' );
    }

to:

if ( is_category() ) {
        $title = sprintf( __( '%s' ), single_cat_title( '', false ) );
    } elseif ( is_tag() ) {
        $title = sprintf( __( '%s' ), single_tag_title( '', false ) );
    } elseif ( is_author() ) {
        $title = sprintf( __( '%s' ), '<span class="vcard">' . get_the_author() . '</span>' );
    }//if you want to remove or just change text if you need to

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