static Home page – How to Remove Title? I’ve tried everything!?

Your page doesn’t load for me. However, if your static page is your home page. You need to edit either home.php or index.php. Look for a tag called

<php the_title(); ?> or the_title();

Remove this tag. Depending on your theme, you should also look in the header.php file.

Thanks ??

This fortunately removes the titles on all the pages, I just want to remove the one on the home page

Was the change in your header.php file?

If so, you can write something like the following:

<?php if (is_home()) { ?>
<!-- don't display title (leave this blank) -->
<?php } else { ?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php } ?>

Let me know if this works for you.

Since I use WP to create websites, not just blogs, I frequently have situations where I have more than one page where I don’t want a title displayed. However, each page needs to have a title to identifiy it in the Dashboard list and to create a permalink.
I also frequently want the menu entry for a page to be different from its title (i.e. shorter).
So I create two custom fields, menu_title and page_title, which I can either set or not set, to the same thing as the title or to something different, just as I like, and in my templates I retrieve that special field with get_post_meta and output it (a) as the page title (so if it is not set, no page title will display) and (b) in the menu (so the menu item can be shorter than the actual title).
Works quite nicely.

@wnpaul, this is a good technique. Thanks for sharing!

@ haydenhancock i’m afriad that technique didn’t work for me

@ Wnpaul

I’m afraid i’m not following how to set up the custom field I also need to set a custom field value.

i’m not great with coding so may not be picking it up right ??

I was having the hardest time to get this code, other codes & custom fields to work, so I tried a different approach: Templates.

This won’t be the best detailed instructions, but here we go:

1) take your page.php and make a copy of it, name it page-notitle.php (you can find this file in your theme folder /wp-content/themes/name of your theme/page.php)
2) add this to the top of your code (this is what gives the name to your new template page that you’ll see in your drop down menu when you make a new PAGE, not post):

<?php
/*
Template Name: Full Width Page No Title
*/
?>

So it will look something like this:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Full Width Page No Title
*/
?>

<?php the_post(); ?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
	<?php if (get_option('thesource_integration_single_top') <> '' && get_option('thesource_integrate_singletop_enable') == 'on') echo(get_option('thesource_integration_single_top')); ?>	

	<div id="main-content-wrap">
		<div id="main-content" class="clearfix fullwidth">
			<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/includes/breadcrumb.php'); ?>
			<div id="top-shadow"<?php if(is_front_page()) echo(' class="nobg"'); ?>></div>

			<div id="recent-posts" class="clearfix">
				<div class="entry post clearfix">

					<div class="entry-content">
						<?php $thumb = '';
							  $width = get_option('thesource_thumbnail_width_pages');
							  $height = get_option('thesource_thumbnail_height_pages');
							  $classtext = 'thumb alignleft';
							  $titletext = get_the_title();

							  $thumbnail = get_thumbnail($width,$height,$classtext,$titletext,$titletext);
							  $thumb = $thumbnail["thumb"]; ?>

						<?php if($thumb <> '' && get_option('thesource_page_thumbnails') == 'on') { ?>
							<?php print_thumbnail($thumb, $thumbnail["use_timthumb"], $titletext , $width, $height, $classtext); ?>
							<p class="date"><span><?php the_time(get_option('thesource_date_format')) ?></span></p>
						<?php }; ?>

						<?php the_content(); ?>
						<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>'.__('Pages','TheSource').':</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>
						<?php edit_post_link(__('Edit this page','TheSource')); ?>
					</div> <!-- end .entry-content -->
				</div> <!-- end .entry -->

				<?php if (get_option('thesource_show_pagescomments') == 'on') comments_template('', true); ?>

			</div> <!-- end #recent-posts -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Then find your title code, should look similar to this & delete it:
<h1 class="title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1> or <?php the_title(); ?>

Once that code is delete upload your file (FTP) to your theme folder

@morg7801 Thank you so much!!! this work 4 me!!!