Remove “View all posts filed under” from wp_list

Remove “View all posts filed under” from wp_list_categories Title attribute

Remove the menacing “title” attribute from all elements under the wp_list_categories() function.

WordPress automatically includes the Title attribute for each element in the wp_list_categories() function. It looks pretty bad when it you’re implementing the category list in a place like the top navigation menu.

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Here is a way to take off the “Title” attribute from wp_list_categories(). wp_list_categories has a parameter echo [like many other wp functions], which when set to 0 does not echo the code onto the screen. This way, we can get the whole string onto a php variable.

To change Title attribute to “Category Name” instead of “View all posts filed under Category Name” :

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$categoriesVar = wp_list_categories("echo=0");
$categoriesVar = str_replace( "View all posts filed under " , ' ' , $categoriesVar );
echo $categoriesVar;

To completely remove the title attribute:

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$categoriesVar = wp_list_categories("echo=0");
$categoriesVar = preg_replace( '/title=\"(.*?)\"/' , ' ' , $categoriesVar );
echo $categoriesVar;

The same code can also be written in a single statement:

1 2	echo preg_replace('/title=\"(.?)\"/','',wp_list_categories("echo=0&title_li=")); / Strips off Title attribute from wp_list_categories */

Update: Feb 08, 2010

WordPress checks for the category description before it defaults the title to “View all posts filed under “. So, you could just add a single whitespace as the description of categories to not show anything in the title.
- Thanks to Justice Chad for this.

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