How to remove Page title, yet avoid the Stats page listing as (untitled)?

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  skellermwd1 · Member · Mar 18, 2015 at 9:46 pm

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  Hi,

  First, let me ask…is there a better way to solve problems using WordPress.com, than using this very congested forum system? For instance, is there a Twitter resource where you could ask a quick question and get a quick answer?

  Now…my real question is about removing page titles, so that they don’t show at the top of each page, when the menu has the page title on a menu tab, and you wind up with redundancy. When I removed the page title, and put the page title in the Navigation window on the Menu page, the look of the site is better. However, without a page title on the admin page, that page is noted as “#1 (untitled)” on the WP Stats page.

  This adds a step or two when editing the site, because the page names(titles) are not there for convenient access.

  Also, I am wondering what effect that will have on other analytics programs, though Google doesn’t work anyway with WordPress (or so I thought, until today, when I am being asked to link Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics for another of my WP.com sites?!)

  Constructive input will be appreciated.

  Thanks,
  Steve

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  jsmutek · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 12:59 am

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  Hey Steve,

  These forums are probably going to be your best way of getting support.

  With regards to the title, do you have a premium subscription? If so it would be really easy to hide the page titles with CSS.

  Let me know if you’d like to give this a try and need some help with the CSS.

  Having no titles at all will have an impact on SEO. Hiding the text with CSS (but making it available to screen readers) is advisable. This is a good method.

  You can’t use Google Analytics with your wordpress.com site (without a hack) but Google does “work” with WordPress, so far as Google will rank your pages just like any other page.

  I hope this helps. I’m out for tonight, but I’ll be around tomorrow if you have any follow ups.

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  skellermwd1 · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 6:54 am

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  Thanks for the input JS! The client does have the premium upgrade, but I am a bit reluctant to trust myself with CSS. Thanks for the insight re the no titles route. Looked at the “good method” and it did nothing for me for clarification…sorry. I changed the pages back, so that page title are evident, but I would love to learn to use CSS, for at least this modification.

  Thanks,
  Steve

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  jsmutek · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 9:28 am

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  Hey Steve, no problem at all. Try this CSS in your customizer. I’ve added a comment block so that you can see what it is doing, and to credit the authors of the code.

  /*******************************************************************************
  Hide post titles, using screen-reader-text method from _s acessibility
  https://github.com/Automattic/_s/blob/master/sass/modules/_accessibility.scss
  Targets all elements with class of .entry title.
  *******************************************************************************/
  
  .entry-title {
    clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
  	position: absolute !important;
  	height: 1px;
  	width: 1px;
  	overflow: hidden;
  }

  Let me know if that helps.

  – Jimmy

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  skellermwd1 · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 4:21 pm

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  That worked, once I figured out where to place it! Thanks a lot!!

  Can you check the site to confirm things are as functional as they should be?

  Best,
  Steve

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  jsmutek · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 6:53 pm

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  Hey Steve, all looks good to me. Good show!

  – Jimmy

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  skellermwd1 · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 7:04 pm

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  Thanks Jimmy!! Check out the text box on the sidebar! I asked the board, but figured it out. I like that CSS convenience…I would like to learn more.

  Thanks again!

  Steve

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  jsmutek · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 7:42 pm

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  No problem, Steve. Happy to help.

  You’re fairly limited with what you can do on a wordpress.com blog, but that also makes it a really good way to learn the basics.

  I have a self hosted site for my work, and I work in the self hosted space, but my personal blog is a wordpress.com site, and I really enjoy the stability and working within the limitations.