How to Change the Heading Tag for the Related Posts Title?

If you have enabled related posts on your Blog posts, you might have noticed that the Related Posts Title has the <h2> heading tag assigned by default.

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?

You can use the filter below to change the tag for the Related Posts Title to any other tag. 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;

// Filter for changing related posts title heading tag.
add_filter( 'astra_related_posts_title', 'update_related_posts_title_markup', 10, 1 );
function update_related_posts_title_markup( $markup ) {
    $markup = '<div class="ast-related-posts-title-section">';
     $markup .= '<h4 class="ast-related-posts-title">'; // Replace H4 with the tag you need.
 $markup .= 'Related Posts';
 $markup .= '</h4>'; // Replace H4 with the tag you need.
    $markup .= '</div>';
    return $markup;
}

Step 3 – The filter will change the default <h2> tag to <h4> tag. Update this by replacing <h4> in the code with any heading tag needed. Click the “Update File” button to apply changes.

Default Tag

Heading Tag after adding the Filter