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Written on 11 Jun, 2009 at 7:56 in Blog, Tips and Tricks by appfair.com | 0 Comments

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Automatically Title Case WordPress Post Title

I have a web site that was previously build with php programming, just a simple website Â but then I decided to ported it to be a WordPress base website.

The moving process it self just need a few minutes using my custom wordpress db importer plugin, the longer process is tweaking the WordPress blog it self.

One of the problem that I face after converting the website into WordPress base website is about the post title. In the previous database, I don’t use a proper title capitalization in the article, all title case is in lowercase :wink:. Lowercase in the title is not a problem before because with just a simple ucwords function in the php code or using simple text-transform style in the css, these lowercases post title will be transformed nicely into title case post title.

But that’s not the case in WordPress blog.

Simple way to force WordPress to title casing or changing the first letter of each word in the post title is using this following code:

function pk_title($content) {
$content=ucwords($content);
return $content;
}

add_filter(‘wp_title’, ‘pk_title’);
add_filter(‘the_title’, ‘pk_title’);

All we need to do is just copy and paste the code above into file Functions.php of our WordPress theme and all set. The problem is, this method will change the first letter of all word found in the post title, even for small word like a, an, and, of etc.

After quick search in WordPress plugin database, fortunately, they already had a nice plugin called Title Case and Title Case Capitalization plugins. Once activated, both plugins will automatically filter post titles as they are output and put them in proper Title Case, including the un-capitalizing first letter of small word.

Which one do you wanna use?

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