Remove a word from end of post titles

[hansel]

I would like to remove the last word of post titles (only on home and category pages).
I tried this (and many more) but I can't get it to work.

This does not work:

if ( is_home() || is_category() ) {
	add_filter( 'genesis_post_title_output', 'child_remove_stupidword_from_titles' );
	function child_remove_stupidword_from_titles( $title ) {
		return preg_replace( 'stupidword$', '', $title );
	}
}

How can I change the post title? I already tried many different hooks and no google results can help me out... Someone please help me out! 🙂

[ramseyp]

The hook that touches the title text is genesis_post_title_text, not genesis_post_title_output. Try running add_filter on that & see if it works.

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[hansel]

Unfortunately this doesn't work either.

Right now I have this in functions.php and it does nothing:

if ( is_home() || is_category() ) {
	add_filter( 'genesis_post_title_text', 'child_remove_stupidword_from_titles' );
	function child_remove_stupidword_from_titles( $title ) {
		return preg_replace( 'stupidword$', '', $title );
	}
}

🙁 I hope someone can point me in the right direction...

[hansel]

I sure hope someone comes along to help me...
I had no luck over the weekend trying to fix this myself.

[hansel]

Is there really no way to do this?

[ramseyp]

Hi Hansel,

You want to rework your filter function a bit. You need to return $title, and the conditionals need to be moved inside the function, around what is to be changed when those conditionals are met. I used a different method of stripping the last word & it works well. I don't know if using substr with strrpos way is faster than using preg_replace, but that would be an option, too, I think.

function child_remove_stupidword_from_titles( $title ) {
	if ( is_home() || is_category() ) { 
		$title = substr($title, 0, strrpos($title, " "));
	}
	return $title;
}
add_filter( 'genesis_post_title_text', 'child_remove_stupidword_from_titles' );

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[hansel]

For me this removes the entire title... I just want the last word of the title removed...

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