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February 6, 2015 at 11:17 am #30176

oldmankit
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At the moment my custom post type has a name, “Reiki Masters and Practitioners”. It has two categories, “In-person” and “Distance”.

When I visit a category page, the title (css class=”entry=title”) is like this:

All Reiki Masters and Practitioners in Thailand’s In-person

How can I change that to:

All Reiki Masters and Practitioners in Thailand (In-person)

I looked in the translation file, which is where I normally go to tweak stuff like this, but couldn’t find anything.

February 6, 2015 at 1:46 pm #30183

Simone
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Well, this is a category name, so you should name the category to (In-person)

February 6, 2015 at 6:34 pm #30213

Paolo
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Using SEO plugin you should be able to wrap the title’s category tag in parenthesis.

Not 100% sure though.

February 7, 2015 at 2:09 am #30255

oldmankit
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Thanks guys. It’s not just the parentheses, there is also an apostrophe s (in Thailand’s) that I need to get rid of.

I’ll try an SEO plugin next week and see how it goes.

February 17, 2015 at 10:56 am #31156
oldmankit
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I’ve just installed Yoast. Yoast only has options to change the page title and meta descriptions. I don’t want to change those (I can already change them through Genesis framework, which I’m using).

I want to change the actual entry title on the category page. As I said in the original post, I want to change the page element with the css class of “entry=title”. If you go to this example page on my site, you will see the text I want to change: the text that says “All Reiki Masters and Practitioners in ‘In-Person’”, which currently makes no sense.

I have tried to solve this issue myself. First I found out what is generating the entry title on the category page. Is it Genesis or a Genesis Child Theme or GeoDirectory? I enabled the default WordPress theme, Twenty Fifteen, and nothing has changed in the entry title. So I guess it’s not Genesis, it’s GeoDirectory. I could be wrong, it could be WordPress itself.

My guess is that it’s GeoDirectory. So how can I go about changing functions.php to change the entry title of the top-level category page like this:
- existing: All [name of custom place type] in ‘[name of category]’
- what I want: All [name of category] [name of custom place type]
February 17, 2015 at 6:57 pm #31196
Paolo
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Ok,

this is how you should do it:

1) remove the action that adds the title in the template:
```
remove_action( 'geodir_listings_page_title', 'geodir_action_listings_title', 10 );
```
2) copy the function geodir_action_listings_title from geodirectory_template_actions.php line 732 and paste in your theme functions.php

3) edit the function as desired and make sure to rename it to something like : my_geodir_action_listings_title

4) add a new action with your function to add your custom title back in the page.
```
add_action( 'geodir_listings_page_title', 'my_geodir_action_listings_title', 10 );
```
Let us know how you went.

Thank you
February 25, 2015 at 8:42 am #31992
oldmankit
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Paolo,

That’s exactly the kind of help I needed. Thank you.

So far it’s all gone well. I have successfully managed steps 2-4.

The only thing remaining is step 1. Pasting that code into functions.php appears to have no effect on my site. Just to confirm that: I have
```
remove_action( 'geodir_listings_page_title', 'geodir_action_listings_title', 10 );
```
but it doesn’t seem to remove the action.

So now I have two entry titles: the default one, which I can’t remove, and the new, customised one.
February 25, 2015 at 10:49 am #32002
oldmankit
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I tried removing everything related to the entry header in Genesis, but still cannot get rid of it. In case it helps, here is the html:
```
<div class="content-sidebar-wrap" id="geodir-wrapper">
	<header class="entry-header">
		<h1 class="entry-title fn">Reiki Masters and Practitioners in Thailand offering Distance Reiki</h1></header>
	
	<div class="term_description"><p>Reiki Masters and Practitioners offering distance Reiki Courses and Treatments</p>
	</div>

<div role="main" class="content"><main role="main" class="entry listings-page" id="geodir-main-content"><div class="clearfix">		
		<div class="geodir-tax-sort">
			<select onchange="javascript:window.location=this.value;" id="sort_by" name="sort_by">
				<option selected="selected" value="/masters-practioners/distance/?sort_by">Sort By</option><option value="/masters-practioners/distance/?sort_by=post_title_asc" selected="selected">Title</option><option value="/masters-practioners/distance/?sort_by=post_title_desc" selected="selected">Title (reverse)</option>			
			</select>
		</div>

		<header class="entry-header"><h1 class="entry-title fn">All Reiki Masters and Practitioners in Thailand’s Distance Reiki</h1></header>				
			<div class="term_description"><p>Reiki Masters and Practitioners offering distance Reiki Courses and Treatments</p>
			</div>

		</div>



</div>
```
February 25, 2015 at 4:09 pm #32037
Paolo
Site Admin

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ok that’s my fault, the Genesis compatibility already removes and re-adds that part with a different function.

Try this :

Point 1 and 4 are useless, so delete them. In your functions.php keep only your customized function my_geodir_action_listings_title (or whatever you called it)

than add this:
```
remove_action( 'geodir_before_listing', 'gd_genesis_listing_page_title_bar', 10 );
add_action( 'geodir_before_listing', 'my_gd_genesis_listing_page_title_bar', 10 );
function my_gd_genesis_listing_page_title_bar() {
my_geodir_action_listings_title(); //change this name in case you called the function differently
geodir_action_listings_description();
}
```
The original function could be found in: geodirectorygeodirectory-functionscompatibilityGenesis.php

Let us know if this works,

Thx
February 26, 2015 at 6:23 am #32116

oldmankit
Buyer

Post count: 116

I thought it could be something to do with Genesis. I did some digging but couldn’t find what it was.

What you suggested fixed it. Perfect—thank you so much!

February 26, 2015 at 5:40 pm #32153

Paolo
Site Admin

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Glad we solved 🙂

September 13, 2015 at 3:22 pm #53023

highjo
Free User

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Hi there,

Has this been resolved officially yet? I’d prefer not to make changes to the core code where possible, but I agree with the OP, the title’s don’t make any sense and really undermine the quality of the plugins?

Kind regards
K

September 14, 2015 at 8:11 am #53063

oldmankit
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Post count: 116

I just tested the demo site to see how the wording is there. If you visit http://wptry.it/try-geodirectory/places/united-states/attractions/ you will see “All Places in United States’ Attractions”. This wording is awkward, but it was easy enough for me to change on my site (with Paulo’s help). I wasn’t changing any core code, just adding a small custom function in functions.php.

September 14, 2015 at 10:58 am #53082

Stiofan O’Connor
Site Admin

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I will talk with Paolo later about how we can improve this.

Thanks,

Stiofan

September 16, 2015 at 3:34 am #53304

oldmankit
Buyer

Post count: 116

Thanks Stiofan for being responsive!
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