[timmy321]

I’ve come across another sticking point.

Why does my Forum title read “Archives: Forums”?

I would like it to just read “Forums”, but am unsure of how to achieve this.

http://findgyms.co.uk/forums/

Could anyone please signpost me or help me solve this?

Many thanks in advance,

Tim

[Robin W]

the theme is puting the header on

[Robin W]

actually probably more theme/elementor combination related.

since free Elementor is basic, and aims to encourage you to ‘go pro’ and buy additional elements and has a paid bbpress pack add-on, I kinda suspect it needs that to work properly – you wouldn’t write a paid add-on that is not required 🙂

[timmy321]

Ah I see!

It’s likely the Astra theme I imagine then as this page was not built with elementor.

I’ll ask in their forum,

Thanks again Robin!

Tim

[Robin W]

so is this

[bbp-forum-index]

within a WordPress page ?

[timmy321]

Yep it is indeed

[timmy321]

Does this mean you there’s a glimmer of hope that you could provide a solution? 🙂

[Robin W]

so what is that pages title ?

[timmy321]

I’ve put the title as just ‘Forums’

[Robin W]

ok, that doesn’t get us any further

[timmy321]

Hi Robin, so the guys at Astra Forum suggested putting this into the Astra Child theme’s functions.php bit in Appearance – Theme Editor:

add_filter( ‘get_the_archive_title’, ‘to_archive_title_remove_prefix’ );
function to_archive_title_remove_prefix( $title ) {
if ( is_post_type_archive() ) {
$title = post_type_archive_title( ”, false );
}
return $title;
}

I have no idea how or why it worked, but it did!!

Thank you for troubleshooting this with me 🙂

Maybe if anyone has a similar issue in the future they could also try this fix?

Kind Regards,

Tim

[Robin W]

great – thanks for posting the answer

[torimc125]

Thank you @robin-w and @timmy321 for providing your solution. I have the exact issue. This is my first time working with a child’s theme. I actually had to read how to install one, so I learned another lesson working through this issue. Since this is all new to me, can someone tell me where within the functions.php content I should add the “fix verbiage”? Can I add it anywhere above my last line, or does it need to go before or after some other functions definition? I will continue to search for an answer in other areas, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask. Thank you in advance. Victoria

[Robin W]

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[torimc125]

Thank you, Robin, for your reply. I downloaded Code Snippets and I added the above line, you provided, wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php. I changed %your-theme-name% to my theme, but I receive this fatal error.

Don’t Panic
The code snippet you are trying to save produced a fatal error on line 1:
syntax error, unexpected end of file

Was I supposed to add the below to code snippet?

add_filter( ‘get_the_archive_title’, ‘to_archive_title_remove_prefix’ );
function to_archive_title_remove_prefix( $title ) {
if ( is_post_type_archive() ) {
$title = post_type_archive_title( ”, false );
}
return $title;
}

[Robin W]

if you are using code snippets, then JUST the code below (not the “wp-content/theme” etc – do NOT add that) , and use this code as it has the correct apostrophies in it

add_filter( 'get_the_archive_title', 'to_archive_title_remove_prefix' );
function to_archive_title_remove_prefix( $title ) {
if ( is_post_type_archive() ) {
$title = post_type_archive_title( '', false );
}
return $title;
}

[torimc125]

Hi Robin: Thank you again for your reply.  I copied the code you provided and pasted it into Code Snippets. Now I get this error message: 

“The snippet has been deactivated due to an error on line 3:
Cannot redeclare function to_archive_title_remove_prefix.

Any other suggestions?
Victoria

[Robin W]

so have you got this is your functions files as well ?

[Robin W]

that is a question – you should only have it once, either in your theme function file or in code snippets not in both !

[torimc125]

I did!  I have corrected the error and now I am up and running. Thank you so much!  

[Robin W]

great – glad you are fixed !!