Is it possible to keep the page title from actually appearing at the top of the page?

Displaying the title is part of the code inside your theme. But you can remove (hide) the title from display by looking at the CSS ‘class’ or ‘id’ your theme assigns to the title. You do this with developer tools like Firebug.

Assume that the text of the title specifies the class of ‘thetitle’. Add this CSS to your theme (via the additional CSS that the theme may allow):

.thetitle {display:none; }

If your theme does not allow ‘additional CSS’, then your best bet is to create a Child Theme for your theme, and add the above CSS to the style.css of your child theme. (You don’t want to modify your theme’s style.css file, as any changes you make would be overwritten with a theme update.)

Another option is to install a plugin that allows you to add additional CSS, if your theme does not support that. There are several that are available.