How to Remove the Word Archive from Category & Tags title?

One of our readers of BloggerSprout asked me how he could remove the word archive from the category & tags title.

Well, if you are not familiar with WordPress and the archive functionality built into it. Then this article will definitely resolve all your queries.

The WordPress file system has a file called archive.php in its theme folder, and every WordPress theme has it.

Basically, this file lists all the posts with or without specific categories. 

Sometimes Google indexes this page as it has several links to different posts and it doesn’t look good in search results as the word “Archive” is present.

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Steps to remove the word Archive from Category & Tags

So, there are 3 different ways to remove the word from the category title and tag title.

1.  Yoast SEO – The Easy Way

Yoast SEO provides this functionality to modify any title tags for any post type and taxonomies. Taxonomies are Tags and categories in WordPress. So to remove the word you need to do the following:

• Login to your wp-admin
• Goto SEO (Yoast SEO)
• Titles & Metas and click on the Taxonomies tab.
• Then Remove the word “Archive“

2. RankMath – Another Easy way

RankMath is also an SEO plugin and is now beating its way to the top by competing with Yoast SEO.

Personally, I have switched to RankMath, as it provides more features for free that you need to purchase on Yoast SEO.

RankMath also allows you to remove the Word Archive from the Category & Tags title.

To remove the Word Archive from the Category & Tags title, you just need to do the Following

• Go to WP-Admin -> Plugins -> Add New -> Search -> Rank Math
• Install and Activate it
• Go through its Easy Settings mode, and do the recommended settings.
• Now Go to RankMath -> Titles & Metas -> Choose Category or Tags
• Next, edit the field in Category Archive Titles.
• Now, Click the save Changes button.
• That’s it. You have removed the word archive.

3.  Code – The Hard Way

Now if you are familiar with the WordPress hierarchy and also with coding in PHP, then this solution might help you. 

If your theme comes with a child theme, I would always recommend you to use and edit the child theme rather than the primary theme, but if your theme doesn’t come with a child theme, then it’s not a problem.

Here are the steps that will help you achieve that:-

• Connect & Establish FTP connection with your WordPress.
• Navigate to wp-content > themes > Your Current Theme.
• Search for “category.php and “archive.php”.
• Click edit on both of them.
• Now search for “archive-title” find the word ‘Archive’ and remove it.

This above step will remove the word “Archive” from the category title and tag title. but in case you couldn’t find that word for any reason, you have method 2.

• Connect & Establish FTP connection with your WordPress.
• Navigate to wp-content > themes > Your Current Theme. > functions.php
• OR
• Login to wp-admin > Appearance > Edit Theme
• Select functions.php
• and paste the following code

add_filter( 'get_the_archive_title', function ($title) {
 if ( is_category() ) {
 $title = single_cat_title( '', false );
 } elseif ( is_tag() ) {
 $title = single_tag_title( '', false );
 } elseif ( is_author() ) {
 $title = '<span class="vcard">' . get_the_author() . '</span>' ;
 }
 
 return $title;
});

Conclusion

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