how do I change my post’s title h2 in my index.php

please use the code button when pasting code, so we can see what you’ve actually got there, instead of this mishmash.

what you really need to remove is the:

<a href="some stuff here" rel="more stuff" title="blah blah"> . . . </a>

part.

basically, pay close attention to the angled brackets and remove only that which I’ve shown here. Everything signified by the dots should stay, so text between the open A and the closed /A should stay, but the anchor tag itself should go.

Apologies for the code, I’m new to this. I hope the code is below now.

<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

Could I check with you what should go as I don’t quite understand what you mean. Thanks.

try turning what you’ve posted into this:

<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

and see how you go.

It is possible to remove the underline and change the colour of your heading links, if you did actually want them to remain links… but as you’ve stated, if you don’t want them to be links at all, this is how to do it.

Just to add to my confusion are there too many double quotation marks in the code above and is this what it should look like?….

<h2><?php the_permalink() ?> rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

As you have advised, I have kept the text between the open and closed A /A and have deleted the anchor tag itself but it does not work. I’m not sure what you mean by everything signified by the dots should stay when the dots come after some text which I think should stay.

I’d be grateful if you could clarify this please.

well, then maybe you’re wrong ?? or at least you’re not making it clear whether you do indeed want to remove the link or not.

I did post an example above…

if you don’t want it to be a link, keeping all these things with the word LINK in them seem like a bad idea:

<?php the_permalink() ?> rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">

by the way, life will be simpler for you if you use the code button on the posting toolbar above where you’re typing your posts, to insert backticks around your code snippits.

This is just one of those hurdles you’ve got to get over with customizing your blog… a little HTML goes a long way. For some it comes more easily with a book, but unless you’ve been at this for a solid week and still haven’t got the hang of it, I’d say a book probably isn’t necessary.

I’ve only just seen your reply try turning what you’ve posted into this:. This does indeed work, many thanks for your expert knowledge.