Change the title of the blog post

[livemesh]

Unlike other elements in the site like pages or custom post types like portfolio, currently title of a blog post shows up below the top header while leaving the top header to populate a tagline modifiable through the theme options. The default title is “Blog”. If you need to modify this, pls make the following change to the code –

Look for function mo_populate_tagline() in the file framework/functions/utility-functions.php in theme folder, look for the line

} elseif (is_singular('post')) {
        echo '
' . $tagline . '
';

and remove it or make it –

} elseif (is_singular('post')) {
        echo mo_get_entry_title();

Then remove the below line from the file single.php in theme folder (line number 88 ) –

Pls note that the current way of handling the blog post title enables us to conform to http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom microformat. Not sure it matters anymore due to declining popularity of rss feeds.

[redlilydream]

Thank you. This is very good info!

I’d like to know how to make the blog title the same throughout, though. My blog heading looks like this:

My Blog Name
My Blog Description
Example

Which is great. But when you click on an individual blog post, the heading looks like this:

My Blog Name

Example

How can I make ‘My Blog Description‘ in paragraph form to show under ‘My Blog Name‘ in individual posts?

This is what’s in utility-functions.php:

function mo_populate_tagline() {

    /* Default tagline for blog */
    $tagline = mo_get_theme_option('mo_blog_tagline', __('My Blog Name', 'mo_theme'));

    $default_homepage_title = get_bloginfo('name') . __(' Home', 'mo_theme');
    $homepage_tagline = mo_get_theme_option('mo_homepage_tagline', $default_homepage_title);

Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction!

[livemesh]

You can change the function to something like below to obtain the result you desire –

function mo_populate_tagline() {

    if (is_singular('post')) {

        echo '
';
        echo '
The Cure
';
        echo '
An eCommerce blog from the creators of Design Flu™
';
        echo '
';

        return;
    }

    /* Default tagline for blog */
    $tagline = mo_get_theme_option('mo_blog_tagline', __('Blog', 'mo_theme'));

    $default_homepage_title = get_bloginfo('name') . __(' Home', 'mo_theme');
...... 
.......

I utilized the code you used for the blog page to populate the title for individual posts. Hope that helps.

[redlilydream]

Perfect! Thank you! I really suck at php. 🙂

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