Change Author Page Title

[neodjandre]

Hello,

We want to change the default Author page archive title output. Currently it is set at “Author: First Name Last Name”.
Any ideas on a function perhaps?

many thanks
Andrew

[ruenel]

Hello Andrew,

Thanks for writing in! You can change the Author display name in Users > Your Profile ({Username}) > Display name publicly as and change it to your desired name to display.

Hope this helps.

[neodjandre]

No, what I meant is to change the title completely, i.e. append our own text before even the author name is displayed…

[friech]

Hi Andrew,

Sorry, but we are confused, this is how your “default Author page archive” looks on our end;

Would you mind to clarify what do you want to change with that? Or were you referring to a different page? Please clarify.

Thanks,

[neodjandre]

The title in the source code reads Author: Katy Prophet. We want to append our own text before that…

I am referring to the meta title, nothing to do with the actual page!

[friech]

Hi @neodjandre,

Ah, are you referring to this:

• 

That is not the default theme author archive page title, the default is author display name | site title

You might have a plugin that is changing that, more likely an SEO plugin, please check your seo plugin settings/documentation, there should be an option to change that.

Thanks,

[neodjandre]

YES, but where in the theme is this being called? or is this part of wordpress core functionality ?

[lely]

Hi @neodjandre,

The function for meta can be found on this file:
wp-content\themes\x\framework\functions\frontend\meta.php
To change it though we can use change_the_title function:

add_filter('pre_get_document_title', 'change_the_title');
function change_the_title() {
  if(is_author()){
     return 'The author title';
  }
}

Although since you have SEO plugin better to change it there.

Hope this helps.

[neodjandre]

thanks Lely, our SEO plugin cannot handle this yet… I was told to contact the theme developer but will go back to them with your solution.

[ruenel]

You are most welcome!