How to remove “private” and “protected” from the post title

How to remove “private” and “protected” from the post title

Each time you define a specific post as being private or password-protected, WordPress automatically add “Private” or “Protected” to your blog post title. If you don’t want it, nothing simpler: Just apply this great hack.

The only thing you have to do is to paste the following piece of code in your functions.php file. Once you'll save the file, the hack will be applied to your your posts.

function the_title_trim($title) {
	$title = attribute_escape($title);
	$findthese = array(
		'#Protected:#',
		'#Private:#'
	);
	$replacewith = array(
		'', // What to replace "Protected:" with
		'' // What to replace "Private:" with
	);
	$title = preg_replace($findthese, $replacewith, $title);
	return $title;
}
add_filter('the_title', 'the_title_trim');

Credits goes to Chris Coyier for this awesome piece of code. Have you checked out the book Chris wrote with Jeff Starr? It's called Digging into WordPress and it is a must-have for all WordPress fans!

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8 Responses

Simon

Feb 15 2010 17:58

Here’s another shorter way of removing them:

add_filter(‘protected_title_format’, ‘no_title_prefix’);
add_filter(‘private_title_format’, ‘no_title_prefix’);

function no_title_prefix( $prefix ) {
return ‘%s’;
}

Slobodan Kustrimovic

Feb 16 2010 13:30

Simon, that’s a good one.

Theo

Feb 16 2010 18:55

Yes i have one “Digging into WordPress” book and it is very useful. It covers almost everything from installing WP through development. The spiral bound is a nice and practical feature.

I also like to cook with WpRecipes : )

Cheers