Wordpress Taxonomy title output

Question

I'm trying to output the title of a taxonomy page when viewing it.

So like, if I was on a 'tag' page I would go:

<?php if (is_tag()) {?>
    <h1><?php single_cat_title(); ?></h1>
<?php } ?>

But how would I achieve the same thing for if the user is viewing a specific taxonomy page?

is_taxonomy() doesn't exist.

Could you provide more details? What are you referring to specifically when you say Taxonomy? In WordPress you have pages, posts, categories, tags, and search result pages. — hsatterwhite, May 10 '10 at 19:46
Hi this is what i'm using: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/05/06/custom-taxonomies-in-wordpress-28 — Carpy, May 10 '10 at 19:55

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered May 10 '10 at 20:25

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Found this answer for anyone else wondering.

Follow this guide: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/06/04/using-custom-taxonomies-to-create-a-movie-database

Right down the bottom, the line wanted was:

<?php $term = get_term_by( 'slug', get_query_var( 'term' ), get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) ); echo $term->name; ?>

answered May 10 '10 at 20:25

Carpy

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Ah ha, gotcha. Yea, this is in WordPress 3.0, which I haven't messed with yet. Glad you found your answer! – hsatterwhite May 10 '10 at 20:50

score 7 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 26 '11 at 15:02

can be done superdupereasy with:

<?php echo get_queried_object()->name; //output $taxonomy->$tax the simple way ?>

name, when beeing on some custom taxonomy page, will be the taxonomy term., e.g. on something like example.com/books/Fiction, this will echo fiction.

Instead of name you could also use taxonomy, which will echo books.

And shortly spoken, taxonomies are NOT categories or pages or comments, they are something you declare, like "products" or "books". Using that you unlock WordPress'es Custom Post Type functionality. You can make your own archive-products.php, page-products.php, single-products.php and have big fun with it. :)

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 20 '13 at 08:53

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You can use the single_term_title() function.

answered Feb 20 '13 at 08:53

Asta

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 24 '11 at 17:02

Here is a complete example, which modifies the title only for taxonomy listing pages, using the function is_tax()

<title><?php
  global $page, $paged, $post;
  if (is_tax()) {
    $term = get_term_by( 'slug', get_query_var( 'term' ), get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) );
    $term_title = $term->name;
    echo "$term_title | ";
  } else {
    wp_title( '|', true, 'right' );
  }

  // Add the blog name.
  bloginfo( 'name' );

  // Add the blog description for the home/front page.
  $site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
  if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
    echo " | $site_description";

  // Add a page number if necessary:
  if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
    echo ' | ' . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'twentyten' ), max( $paged, $page ) );

  ?></title>

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 24 '15 at 02:20

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I think it is easy enough to use the single_cat_title() function.

See here for more details.

answered Aug 24 '15 at 02:20

Webkix

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Wordpress Taxonomy title output

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