Nathan Lee » php http://nathan-lee.com/blog Nathan musing, ranting and raving about the world. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:11:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Banishing “»” from wordpress titles http://nathan-lee.com/blog/2010/01/04/banishing-from-wordpress-titles/ http://nathan-lee.com/blog/2010/01/04/banishing-from-wordpress-titles/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:32:12 +0000 Nathan http://nathan-lee.com/blog/?p=952 Just one of those niggly little annoying things that I did a quick look through the wordpress templates and couldn’t figure out where it was coming from, but I’m not a fan of the “»” (») character stuffed in between the blog name and the blog title.

It means attempt to digg or share links end up with the ugly beast rearing its head.

The solution

Find the header.php in the theme editor, locate the bit that looks like:

<?php wp_title(); ?>

and change it to:
<?php wp_title('-'); ?>

The explanation is that wp_title takes in a separator character and defaults to the dreaded “»” if none is supplied (so .

Thanks to this guy here for the info.

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