Page Name Shows as Header Title

  • CONFIG
    New hosted domain with WordPress tool
    Windows 10, and Edge browser
    WordPress Theme: Twenty-Twenty-One
    It is a simple one page website.

    ISSUE
    In Pages area, whatever I name a given page will show as the Title on my actual webpage, which is not wanted. If I try to accept using it as the page title, there are no options to format it so it fits with the theme of my website. If I remove the title, it will shows as “Untitled” in both the Editor and page Preview.

    EXPECTED
    * Internal page name has nothing to do with what shows on each page.
    * Page and tagline info to be pulled ONLY from the Site Identity option in the Customize menu (and not Settings, not Page name). (It seems to want to pull from Settings, which is unexpected.)

    TRIED
    * Deleting page name – shows as Untitled on web page title area. Still leaves large space at top of website.
    * Naming as title – unable to format so it fits with theme of page
    * Customize, Site Identity, uncheck “Display Site Title & Tagline” and delete name and tagline information there – no change
    * Site Settings menu, General tab, deleted information in Site Title and Tagline – no change
    * Installed the Twenty Twenty One Options plugin, and chose option to remove forced header/title – no change.

    QUESTIONS
    * How to control what automated content shows on each page’s Title and Header sections.
    * How to prevent internal page names from showing anywhere on a published page.

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  • The window title is controlled by WordPress (the theme calls add_theme_support('title-tag') to indicate that it doesn’t touch it) and can be modified by plugins (mostly SEO plugins).
    The site identity (site title) is used in multiple places by WP and the theme.
    Each page and post has a title. On the front end, the theme controls whether it is shown. The theme or a plugin may have options to hide the title, but it can be used for links from other pages or as meta data for page preview (like from Facebook). This is why you shouldn’t leave it blank. But the theme’s job is page output, so that’s where you have to use a theme that has an option to hide the title, or make a child theme to not output it, or use CSS to make it hidden.
    The header of a page is totally dependent on the theme. Some themes don’t even have a header. You have the same options: use a theme that looks how you want, make a child theme how you want, use CSS to hide parts.

    Thread Starter dpederson47

    (@dpederson47)

    Thank you, Joy, for the context information. That gives me some hints on where to look.

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