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Question about Wordpress Title and tags

by millert25
14 replies
When you make a post in wordpress does your title automatically take on the h1 tag? My issue is this: when I create a post, I start in the body with h2 and work my way down from there, so I never have any headings with the h1 tag in the body. I don't want to put the title in the body again and put it with an h1 tag cause it looks redundant. How is everyone else doing this? Does this even matter?
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  • Profile picture of the author NatesMarketing
    It will depend on your theme.

    Most themes, that I have used, have the post title as the H1 tag.

    But, some themes aren't built that way, so - just take a look at your source and see what's going on.
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    • Profile picture of the author MovingAround
      Originally Posted by NatesMarketing View Post

      It will depend on your theme.

      Most themes, that I have used, have the post title as the H1 tag.

      But, some themes aren't built that way, so - just take a look at your source and see what's going on.
      What if the tag in the source code says <title>Example</title> >

      I've found that some themes use the <title> tag instead of H1 for the automatic titles in WP. Is this tag interpreted as a <h1> tag by Google and the other SEs?
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeff Sommers
    I will often rephrase the title to start off with a h1 tag. As you point out it does not look good to have the same wording appear as h1 tags
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    So much non-knowledge in this thread that it (almost) hurts...

    For starters: if you are worried about heading tags (h1, h2, h3 etc.) and/or the <title> tag in your HTML - learn the freaking HTML language!
    Heading tags and <title> are absolutely different things! (and if you have no idea... you shouldn't give advice to others :rolleyes

    To the OP: you are doing it very wrong: every normal WP theme puts the proper heading tags around the title of a post/Page (entry) and it should be - normally - stored in the database, together with the content. So, don't try to be smarter than the tool you are using because your "solution" is no good... you are just messing up things. No need to put manually Hx tags in the content when there is a working system built into the themes!

    Good themes coded in HTML4 would have different heading tags (h2 or h1) depending on the template that displays the entry because WP picks the templates based on the query sent to the database: on multipost views the blog title is H1 and the post titles have h2. Single post view flips the blog title into a span and puts h1 around the post title.

    And since HTML5 allows to have multiple h1 tags, provided they are in different sections, the very advanced themes (like WP's own 2011 & 2012) take advantages of this and they use heading tags accordingly.
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    • Profile picture of the author Lazy Larry
      Yeah Istvan... let them have it!!!!
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    • Profile picture of the author MovingAround
      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      So much non-knowledge in this thread that it (almost) hurts...

      For starters: if you are worried about heading tags (h1, h2, h3 etc.) and/or the <title> tag in your HTML - learn the freaking HTML language!
      Heading tags and <title> are absolutely different things! (and if you have no idea... you shouldn't give advice to others :rolleyes

      To the OP: you are doing it very wrong: every normal WP theme puts the proper heading tags around the title of a post/Page (entry) and it should be - normally - stored in the database, together with the content. So, don't try to be smarter than the tool you are using because your "solution" is no good... you are just messing up things. No need to put manually Hx tags in the content when there is a working system built into the themes!

      Good themes coded in HTML4 would have different heading tags (h2 or h1) depending on the template that displays the entry because WP picks the templates based on the query sent to the database: on multipost views the blog title is H1 and the post titles have h2. Single post view flips the blog title into a span and puts h1 around the post title.

      And since HTML5 allows to have multiple h1 tags, provided they are in different sections, the very advanced themes (like WP's own 2011 & 2012) take advantages of this and they use heading tags accordingly.
      1) Calm down.

      2) Read the posts again, no one is giving advice about <title> tags; in fact, no one has given any advice at all (other than "it depends") because no one is at your expertise level (i.e. note the irony) to know something as hardcore as the difference between both tags.

      3) People have every right to ask, even if it "hurts" you. Forums are for asking, am I right? Unless we have a rule that says "we are not allowed to post threads that hurt some very sensitive people", I believe the OP has every right to ask this question and the rest of posters have every right to post as they did.

      4) The OP is not being smarter than the tool he's using. Are you even sure you're reading the same thread we're on? (legitimate question)

      5) Thanks for your "advice", even if 1/3 is devoted to putting down other people who haven't even done what you imply in your post.
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  • Profile picture of the author Maggie143
    I am not getting why you are concerned with it and why you would want to mess with the title. Most wordpress themes use the H1 tag if you want to know for sure then exam the code and that will answer your question. You can easily inspect the page and it will show you all the code that is being used.
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  • Profile picture of the author azad
    It primary depend on your theme. You can change it by editing your single.php file. PM me if you need help with this.
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  • Profile picture of the author catchmikey
    how about posting your url?

    did you look at the source code and see no <h1>? This can be modified in your files if you need to
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    • Profile picture of the author NatesMarketing
      <title> tags are different from <h1> tags.

      <title> tags are the page's title ex: <title>WarriorForum - Internet Marketing Forums</title> -> That is what will show up in search engines and on your Internet browser tabs

      <h1> tags are your post's title ex <h1>Content is King</h1>

      Then you can add <h2>, <h3>, etc into your post - if that's what you want to do. You can have multiple <h2> - <h6> - they don't matter like <h1>s do for SEO purposes.

      Normally, in default mode, your <title> and <h1> tags will be the same thing unless you make them different or unless you have a different theme.
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  • Profile picture of the author millert25
    My question was pretty much what Movingaround was talking about. I notice that my post pages have a title tag but nowhere is there a h1 tag, and I manually add the h2-h6 tags or whatever. Natesmarketing answer is what I was looking for, thank you sir. Istvan, you need to take a xanax or something, if it hurts you to read peoples questions who aren't as knowledgable as you (you don't even seem knowledgable, just angry), then stay off forums.
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  • Profile picture of the author Moondawg
    Hi, Perhaps a way to overcome this is to use a FREE Plugin called "Hide Title". it places a check box on every page/post and if you check it , your generic title won't show. this way you can then create you title within the body of your post the way you want it to appear.

    Hope this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author alexgold87
    Use default Twenty Twelve theme and be happy. It was made specially for active SEO and Google loves it. So why need to install unknown themes and then mess up? Use ready to resources, don't waste your time!
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  • Profile picture of the author Hostgator Coupon
    Like everyone here said it really depends on your theme. Some post titles are <h1> and some are </h2>. View your blog and right click the post title and choose Inspect Element to see which one it is.
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