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Last Edited : September 8, 2015

Remove ‘Archive for’ in WordPress Blog Categories

I have just spent half an hour trying to figure out how to remove the very annoying “Archive for” text that appears when I set up menu items that point to my Blog Categories in WordPress 3.1. After a bit of messing round I found the answer!

I Googled it in the hope to find out how to remove this text from the WordPress theme I was using but it soon became apparent that I would have to change the source code.

Most sites said that I had to change text in a file called archive.php which is located within the theme folder at

wp-contentthemesyour-theme

They said to change all sorts of different codes, phrases and words which worried me. However, when I opened the file in an editor there was no sign of any of the suggested lines.

After messing around with various lines in the code to no avail in archive.php I noticed there was another file called category.php. I opened it not expecting to find anything inside as almost every webpage I found on the “Archive for” WordPress issue said the text I had to change was in archive.php. To my surprise I found the following line

<h1>Archives for ‘<?php single_cat_title(); ?</h1>

All I did was remove the text so it looked like this:

<h1><?php single_cat_title(); ?></h1>

I uploaded the new file and the Blog Category title changed and no longer had the “Archives for” text.

The moral of the story is to check both of these files in your WordPress install just in case the entry you need to change is hidden away in category.php on your particular theme.

Hopefully you will find this tip useful on your own WordPress blog!

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Comments

  1. Jude says

    March 10, 2014 at 4:58 pm

    If you use the “Responsive” theme, you need to modify the file functions.php in the /wp-content/theme/responsive/include directory. It is on line 522.

    Reply
  2. Christina says

    March 4, 2014 at 11:47 pm

    Excellent, thanks!

    Reply
  3. Christina says

    March 4, 2014 at 11:47 pm

    Excellent! Thanks heaps!

    Reply
  4. Christina says

    March 4, 2014 at 11:46 pm

    Excellent! Thanks so much!

    Reply
  5. DesertRose says

    November 5, 2013 at 3:50 am

    This was driving me crazy, thanks for the article, worked perfectly

    Reply
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    October 1, 2013 at 2:10 am

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  7. Rovel says

    August 15, 2013 at 5:09 pm

    Very helpful. Thanks for posting this.

    Reply
  8. Chris says

    June 11, 2013 at 9:30 am

    Here’s a simple, but useful addition to this – Run a find & replace on all folders – this will pull up the term wherever it is and you can determine whether it is the one to change or not. Each theme is written differently and in my theme ‘Archive for’ is only found in the archive.php file – but I only found that out after running the find & replace using notepad++.

    Reply
  9. Jenish says

    March 4, 2013 at 6:07 pm

    Thanks , Its worked !!

    Reply

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