Looks like WP is using HTML entity encoding on the special characters, you need to parse the title using the html_entity_decode() function like so. $title = html_entity_decode(get_the_title($result->post_id)); if ( 0 === post_exists( $title ) ) { $title=”Document Id: “.$result->post_id .’ (Deleted)’; } I am not sure if the post exists function decodes the characters but … Read more
Your title isn’t correctly encoded for use in a query variable. Try this: echo ‘ <a href=”http://www.testungsss.com/search?q=’ . urlencode($titletest) . ‘”>’ . $titletest . ‘</a>’;
Welcome the the WordPress Stack Exchange and congrats on your first post! First off, you may not want to use query_posts() here. Second off – the_post() needs to be before the_title() as it sets up all the posts functions such as the_title(), the_permalink() etc. and queues the next post in your while loop. Your Loop … Read more
<?php echo substr(get_the_title(), 0,42) ;?> Notice the echo and the get_the_title() This will get you the result you’re looking for. Here’s an alternative to consider: I’ve always found character limits cause weird word breaks that users find confusing. WordPress has a function called wp_trim_words that you can use. <?php echo wp_trim_words( get_the_title(), 5, ‘…’ ); … Read more
First things first, lets clean up your code: <?php $wptitle = the_title(); $wptitle = str_replace(‘&’, ‘and’, $wptitle);?><?php echo $wptitle; ?> Lets remove the PHP tag spam and put things in nice clean lines: <?php $wptitle = the_title(); $wptitle = str_replace(‘&’, ‘and’, $wptitle); echo $wptitle; ?> Now if we look at the problem, the_title, that function … Read more
You can make use the queried object to return the title of the page used as blogpage You can use the following: (Require PHP 5.4+) $title = get_queried_object()->post_title; var_dump( $title );
I believe that first page is your index.php, and I would guess that the code within that file is different from single.php, which is the file used by pages 2 onwards.
if (strpos($post->post_title,’string_it_needs_to_match’) === true){ echo the_content(); } to explain strpos – method of comparing strings === makes sure strings are identical
Allow me to purpose an alternative. Instead of setting the excerpt’s length for all the posts, let’s just trim it for individual posts. Shall we? For this very purpose, we can use get_the_excerpt filter. If you look at the corresponding page about this filter, you notice that the code example is using is_attachment(), which means … Read more
I’m not sure about your question, but the below code is more correct. $attr = array( ‘title’ => get_the_title(), ‘alt’ => ‘a nice view of the ocean’, ); echo sprintf( ‘<a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/281220/%s”>%s</a>’, get_the_permalink(), get_the_post_thumbnail( null, ‘post-thumbnail’, $attr ) );