Remove "permalink to" text snippet that appears on hover with recent posts widget

[COK]

can you tell me how to remove the “permalink to” text that appears on hover for the recent posts element? I previously used the code below, which no longer seems to be working:

jQuery(function($){
$(document).ready(function(){
$('a').attr('title','');
});
});

I can also see this js code is showing up in my footer, so something’s definitely changed in your later versions of the theme:

I also tried this code which was suggested in another thread:

jQuery(".blog .entry-featured a, .blog .entry-title a, .x-recent-posts a").removeAttr("title");

no luck.

someone else said this, and i’d also like to echo it: your typical website visitor is not familiar with what a “permalink” is - therefore, this is not good UX.

site: https://tinyurl.com/yd3knpxv

[jade]

Hi there,

Adding this code to the Global JS should work:

jQuery('.x-recent-posts a').attr('title', '');

But as I have checked, you added a code to the Global JS that is not supposed to be there.

Please remove:

function my_custom_head_output() {
  ?>
   <link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.2.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
  <?php
}

add_action( 'wp_head', 'my_custom_head_output', 99999 );

From the Global JS as that code is a PHP code and should go to the child theme’s functions;php file.

Hope this helps.

[COK]

I’ve removed that code and placed into my functions.php in the child theme.

However, adding this still isn’t fixing the original issue:

jQuery('.x-recent-posts a').attr('title', '');

I’ve cleared cache in both browser and server side.

[jade]

Hi there,

There is still a JS error caused by this line of code which is an HTML code:

<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->

Please only place Javascript codes in the Global JS to avoid errors.

Hope this helps.

[COK]

I’ve removed that line in question as well as all other tags.

The issue now seems to be resolved. I used this:

jQuery('.x-recent-posts a').attr('title', '');

Thanks for helping out

[nico]

Hi @COK,

Happy to hear that.

Feel free to ask us again.

Thanks.