I want to hide the page title on my home page only
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I’m trying to hide the page title on just my home page. Thanks.
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I’ve been wondering the same thing. My front page title is repeated twice on most of the themes, which leaves me with only a couple that are usable. Perhaps this is because it’s a static front page. It would be helpful to keep the title from repeating.
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@thesacredpath, the current theme “spring loaded” and quite a few others have the duplicate title.
My usual theme “almost spring” is fine with no duplicate.
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Also on “spring loaded”, the date icon at left and the search at upper right seem to be not removable.
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Where are you talking about it repeating? I see only the one title (and the tagline) in the header at nina80.
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1) right under the title of the blog
2) in the header > which also seems to be not removable
3) immediately below the header > to the right of the date
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1. That is the tagline for the blog. Go to settings > general and delete the tagline and click save changes to remove the line under the title.
2. The row of buttons below the header image (home, santa maria toastmasters club 80, and nina toastmasters blog) are navigation tabs which link to pages that you have created as well as a link back to the home page.
3. The title to the right of the date is the title of the page that you are viewing. The title is always shown at the top of the page body when you go to a specific page.
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1. That is the tagline for the blog. Go to settings > general and delete the tagline and click save changes to remove the line under the title.Okay I will experiment with that. It looks like I’ll want the tagline for certain themes and not for others, though most of the time will stay with the same theme. Thanks.
2. The row of buttons below the header image (home, santa maria toastmasters club 80, and nina toastmasters blog) are navigation tabs which link to pages that you have created as well as a link back to the home page.I would like for those to not be there if possible. I am able to remove them from “almost spring” and some of the others. Perhaps the date, search, and header are not removable on the springloaded theme.
3. The title to the right of the date is the title of the page that you are viewing. The title is always shown at the top of the page body when you go to a specific page.@thesacredpath – your always helpful responses are much appreciated.
Thank you very much. :)
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This will fix the duplicate in the header tabs.
1. Open the page titled “santa maria toastmasters club 80” and change the title to “home” and click “update post.” After it saves, go to the attributes section to the right of the text area and in the pulldown labeled “main page (no parent)” select “nina toastmasters blog” and again click “update post.” Now go and view the blog.
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#2 happened because you named a page the same as the blog title. That is why there is a duplicateThe blog title “nina toastmasters” is not duplicated. Is this what you mean?
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I’ve done these things now, except put the tagline back, and that got rid of the triplicate, basically renaming the page something different than the tagline.
Now “Home” is the one that’s shown twice. The theme “spring loaded” navigation tabs, original date, and search can apparently not be removed. It is annoying to have a front page that says <b<Home</b> at the top, and besides that, says it twice. I don’t recall now why I made a static front page, but think it was to have a title other than Home.
I’m still wondering if there is any disadvantage to having a static front page, vs a regular front page that says Home?
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@john, what blog are you talking about? nina80 has now changed to a different theme. If you have two HOME tabs, one of them can be hidden. The following will hide one of the home pages and you can have your static page as home. Of course you have now changed themes so the point is mute anyway.
Open the page titled “santa maria toastmasters club 80” and change the title to “home” and click “update post.” After it saves, go to the attributes section to the right of the text area and in the pulldown labeled “main page (no parent)” select “nina toastmasters blog” and again click “update post.” Now go and view the blog.
The name of the front page has nothing to do with anything at all. It is the content. If it is static, the blog is going to have less search engine juice. It doesn’t matter what the name.
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@thesacredpath, Yes I changed it to the regular theme (almost spring) to do some adjustments.
I made the static front page (1) to be able to name it something besides Home, and (2) so posts would not show up on front page.
Why do static front pages get less notice – is it because they don’t contain posts?
If the front page is not static, would posts still show up if the post page has a password?
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Static pages get less notice for many reasons. They are not constructed to be SEO-friendly. They are for information which does not change, therefore there is no particular reason for them to come to the notice of search engines. Search engines are drawn to dynamic content, and the closer it is to the landing point (ie home page) on a website, the better they rank that website. Every splash page, static page, flash intro, etc, tells search engines to bugger off, as the website is not optimized for them. This is why so many corporations have blogs now; to add a dynamic component to their sites that draws the search engines.
If the home page of the blog is the actual blog posts themselves, and the posts are each password-protected, then each post will show up with a login box I believe. But private posts and search engine optimization are pretty much opposed to one another; if your posts are private, why would you care about search engines in the first place?
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My interest is only for the blog show up in searches. The ranking does not matter to me.
Currently I am planning for only 2 pages and 1 or 2 posts.. The posts will be full of comments, and uploads of the weekly schedule and agenda. A certain amount of that is personal information to the club, i.e. phone numbers and such. The 2 pages will have links to the posts, similar to what I have on there now.
If I change the static front page to the original Home page, what would change? Will I still be able to name the page? Could I put a link to the post/s as now, or will the Home page put links to them that are out of my control – and possibly where I don’t want them?
Considering these objectives, is there still an advantage to having the original Home page vs a static front page?
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