[wp-hackers] Ticket #4267 - 'the_title' Filter

[Williams Phillip]

How about something like:

function filter_current_page_title( $title) {
	if (is_page( $title) ) {
		return "new title";
	}
}
add_filter('the_title', 'filter_current_page_title');

I am still pretty new to WP, so take it with a grain of salt...

Phil
phil.m.williams at gmail.com



On Jan 8, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Andy Staines wrote:

> Hi Rob
> Oh yes - that works OK and is my fallback. In this instance I do  
> not know the title - but I do know the page ID so I can run a query  
> to retrieve the title. It works but it's a bit of a hammer to crack  
> the proverbial nut. I can at least run the query just once so that  
> it doesn't get called for each page when wp_list_pages() executes  
> but it's not ideal. I still can't fathom the rationale behind  
> calling the filter in the template tag in the first place.
> So yes - as I say, it's my fallback - I was just hoping there may  
> be a quicker method.
> Thanks for the response.
> Andy
>
> On 8 Jan 2008, at 21:56PM, Rob wrote:
>
>> On Jan 8, 2008 9:48 PM, Andy Staines <andy at yellowswordfish.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> I am hoping someone might be able to suggest a workaround for the
>>> above problem I raised a while  back. In short, sometime after  
>>> 2.1.3,
>>> 'the_title' filter was added to wp_list_pages(). The result is  
>>> that if
>>> you run a filter on 'the_title' to change the title of a specific  
>>> page
>>> and wp_list_pages() is being used (on a navbar or sidebar) then ALL
>>> page titles get changed.
>>>
>>> Testing in the filter to confirm that the current page being  
>>> displayed
>>> is the one you want to modify so that your code runs will, of  
>>> course,
>>> test positive for every call to the filter - hence all page  
>>> titles get
>>> corrupted.
>>>
>>> Can anyone think of a way that I can isolate the one page I need to
>>> change and make the change without effecting all other page  
>>> listings?
>>> Sure be grateful for any suggestions...
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Andy
>>
>> Apologies if I'm misunderstanding, but can you not filter based on  
>> the
>> existing title?
>>
>> function foo_the_title( $title ) {
>>    if ( 'About' == $title ) {
>>        return 'New Title';
>>    }
>>    return $title;
>> }
>> add_filter('the_title', 'foo_the_title');
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Rob Miller
>> http://robm.me.uk/
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