How to Change the Heading Tag for the Page/Post Titles?

A Page/Post title is usually used to let the users know which page they are currently on. You can enable or disable the Page/Post Title for the website in Astra Settings ( Edit Page / Edit Post > Astra Settings > Disable Sections > Disable Title ). By default this Title has heading tag <h1> assigned in HTML structure.

You can modify this tag to any other HTML tag by adding a filter to the functions.php file of your Astra Child Theme. If you don’t have a Child Theme installed and activated on your website, please check this article on how to do this.

How Can I Do This?

If you looking to change the tag of a title (like Page/Post title), you can use the below filter to change the tag for all the titles on your website. Please follow these steps:

Step 1 – Navigate to Dashboard > Appearance > Theme Editor and select the Child Theme

Step 2 – Add the filter below to the functions.php file of your Child Theme. You can check this article on adding code to your Child Theme to help you out.

add_action( 'wp', 'astra_add_title_filter' );

/**
* Function to add filters to change titles.
*
* @return void
*/
function astra_add_title_filter() {
	add_filter( 'astra_the_title_before', 'astra_the_title_before_tag', 1, 10 );
	add_filter( 'astra_the_title_after', 'astra_the_title_after_tag', 1, 10 );
}

/**
* Function to change tag in all titles.
*
* @param string $tag This contains default tag used for the titles.
* @return string
*/
function astra_the_title_before_tag( $tag ) {
	$tag = '<h4>';
	return $tag;
}

/**
* Function to change tag in all titles.
*
* @param string $tag This contains default tag used for the titles.
* @return string
*/
function astra_the_title_after_tag( $tag ) {
	$tag = '</h4>';
	return $tag;
}

Step 3 – The filter will change the default <h1> tag to <h4> tag. Update this by replacing <h4> in the code with any heading tag (or other) needed. Click the “Update File” button to apply changes.

Default Tag

Heading Tag after adding the Filter