Hide a Node title in Drupal

This will work in most themes, but it is not a 100% guarantee, since some themes use sub-files for certain parts of the page. With that proviso, here is a more detailed method to making this change.

Before I go into the detail of the code, it is worth noting that you need to be sure that you are editing the 'page.tpl.php' file of the theme you are using. If you are using the default theme that comes with Drupal, you are using a theme called 'garland', and the page.tpl.php file can be located in

site_root/themes/garland/ (also, you will have to ensure that when you update drupal you either don't overwrite this file, or you add the changes again).

In Drupal 6.10, line 70 of the page.tpl.php file is as follows:

<?php if ($title): print '<h2'. ($tabs ? ' class="with-tabs"' : '') .'>'. $title .'</h2>'; endif; ?>

This is the line you want to edit. A quick change, that I have not fully tested (there might be an issue with tabs) is to change the line to the following:

<?php if ($title!="Home"): print '<h2'. ($tabs ? ' class="with-tabs"' : '') .'>'. $title .'</h2>'; endif; ?>

This will have the effect I described in the my post, (it's slightly different since different theme developers print the title value in different ways).

Some User Themes

Open the page.tpl.php file. In general, around a third of the way down the page you will find a line that will include the value

print $title (again, this is theme dependent, garland does it differently)

This statement prints the value of the title of a node. If you want to remove the title of a node from every page just delete this statement entirely. If you want to only prevent the printing of a title on certain pages, on the line before the 'print $title' line, add in:

<?php if ($title!="Home"): ?>

<?php tells the server to interpret the following lines as PHP code.

if ($title!="Home") tells the server that all lines until the 'endif' value will be executed if the condition is met. In this case the condition is actually a logical 'not' also, i.e. the conditional statement is logically reversed. This statement checks if the title value of the node is NOT 'Home', if it is not this value, then the next line is executed. In this case the next line is 'print $title', i.e. the title of the node is printed.

What all this means is that if the value of the title of a node is 'Home' the title is not printed.

The line <?php endif; ?> ends the conditional 'if' statement, and the remainder of the of the page.tpl.php file will work as before.

NOTE 1: The value of the title and the check in the if statement can be anything you want. You could set it to check for 'No Title', and if a node has the title 'No Title' it will not print it.

Hope this helps.

Sticking with this method, you can just set the name of each node as 'Home' and the if statement will be true for each of the pages.

When at Drupal Camp, there was a talk on advanced theming, which could come in handy. If you want to theme a specific content type you can create a new tpl file in the theme folder, named: "node-CONTENT-TYPE.tpl", e.g. node-poll.tpl. In this case whenever you visit a 'poll' content type the node-poll.tpl file will be used instead of the node.tpl file. That way you can theme every piece of a specific content type.

NOTE: I haven't made use of this technique yet!

Yep, you could add a prefix.

Though I think I would still recommend a new 'page.tpl.php' file for a specific content type. This is predicated on the fact that you will want to hide the title for a specific content type every time it is displayed.

I'm writing up a new post that will explain how to do this more clearly. It should be up in a few days.

It can have SEO benefits, but there having a website that appeals to users is also important. It's a balance.

The frontpage must be using a different tpl file to display content. Check the theme folder it could be called any number of things but most likely it is called 'page-front.tpl.php'. Make the same change in that file and you are good to go.