Displaying Page Title on index.php

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I have my posts page set as index.php, and on there I have my main heading (as I do on all pages).

I’m having trouble displaying the page’s heading however. The page is called ‘Blog’ in WordPress, and has been specified as the posts page.

If I output the page heading with wp_title('');, I get the title of the page — ‘Blog’ — but with the site name after it (perhaps due to Yoast SEO plugin).

If I use the_title() then it gives me the title of the most recent blog post, even though I’m calling the function outside of the loop.

So I’ve had to resort to simple hardcoding <h1>Blog</h1> which is far from ideal.

Is there a way I can pull in the name of the page title dynamically but just the page title on it’s own?

5 Answers
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Strange. Outside the loop, the_title() should give you the current page name, if you really are on a page, and not viewing a specific post. If it gives post title instead, it may mean that you are somehow inside a loop. But if that were true, wp_title shouldn’t show “Blog”.

See if other options give the same result:

//the_title();
single_post_title();
echo $post->post_name; // I think this shows the url page name

Also check for is_page().
You might try the is_page(‘Blog’) test.

if (is_page('blog')) {
echo 'Blog';
}
else {
the_title();
}

just to see what happens.

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