How to Remove the Blog Title in WordPress

Have you ever wanted to remove the Blog Title in WordPress because it interferes with your header? This can often happen when you insert a new header and in the background the Blog Title bleeds through so you can see both your new header and the Blog Title.

The Blog Title is found in the WordPress Dashboard under the Settings –> General menu option. You’ll see it at the top of that page. Removing the title from here will solve the problem but what happens when you do this is that your RSS feed doesn’t display your blog title which really isn’t a good thing.

So what do you do? …well I had the same problem and couldn’t figure out how to fix it but of course there is always someone on the internet who has the answer but what I am going to do today is add a few extra steps to that information for those who have no idea how to edit their WordPress theme.

1. On your WordPress dashboard click the Appearance –> Editor option. This may differ slightly depending on the version of WordPress you are using but on latest version it is on the left hand side menu bar. Just scroll down until your see ‘Appearance’ and under that should be the ‘Editor’ option.

2. You should now be on the Edit Themes page. On the left hand side of the screen is a list of Theme Files. (Again this may differ depending on your WordPress version so you might have to look around for it.) Click the header.php option.

IMPORTANT: At this point it is worthwhile saving all of that code in case you make a mistake and stuff it up. So just select all the code in the box and paste it into a Notepad document. If you make an error you can easily paste all of that code back in.

3. Now you need to look for the following bit of code:

<a href=”<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>/”><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a>

4. Once you’ve found it you need to delete the second part of the code:

<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>

5. Now just update the file to save your changes.

Now the Blog Title should have disappeared from your header but still display in your RSS Feed.

And thank you to Desperately Seeking for helping me to solve this issue.

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