WordPress Theme Hacks
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
WeDesignerWall currently has a pretty good list of WordPress Theme Hacks. This is a good resource if you either trying to create your own theme or customize someone else’s.
These is also a section on one way to get customized titles. They use this example:
<title>
<?php
if (is_home()) {
echo bloginfo('name');
} elseif (is_404()) {
echo '404 Not Found';
} elseif (is_category()) {
echo 'Category:'; wp_title('');
} elseif (is_search()) {
echo 'Search Results';
} elseif ( is_day() || is_month() || is_year() ) {
echo 'Archives:'; wp_title('');
} else {
echo wp_title('');
}
?>
</title>
I personally use something similar for this page:
<title>
<?php /* Title for homepage is "blogtitle | blogdescription", all other pages get "pagetitle | blogtitle" */
if (is_single() || is_page() || is_archive()) { wp_title('',true); echo ' | '; bloginfo('name'); }
else { bloginfo('name'); echo ': '; bloginfo('description'); } ?>
</title>