Remove spaces when echoing the_title

By Austin on May 15, 2009

Ever wanted to print or echo the WordPress title attribute without spaces?

This little trick can be useful for calling custom functions and printing the title with out spaces for W3C compatibility. I used this trick in a new theme called Galleria, which will be out for public download in the coming days.

Using this comes in handy for a delicious text link:

<?php $title = get_the_title(); ?>
<a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=<?php echo $title; ?>&amp;<?php echo str_replace(" ", "%20", $title); ?>">
Bookmark This (<?php echo $title; ?>)</a>

What I am doing is calling $title = get_the_title(); and using str_replace(" ", "%20", $title); to replace empty spaces with a %20, which is used in URL encoding empty spaces.

Alternatively you can use a dash or underscore.

Thanks to Jason Boyle for his adaption.

Posted in Tips & Tricks | Tagged php, the_title, Tips & Tricks

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4 responses to “Remove spaces when echoing the_title”

Peter
May 16, 2009 at 12:10 am | Permalink | Reply

If you’re just trying to make the string into a valid URL candidate, urlencode() might be a better choice- that way you don’t have to worry about other characters in your title (colons, commas, punctuation, etc).

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Peter Kahoun
May 16, 2009 at 7:58 am | Permalink | Reply

There is as “urlencode()” php function for this purpose. http://php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php
Austin
May 16, 2009 at 8:31 am | Permalink | Reply

Thanks for that!
Matt
August 16, 2009 at 11:58 pm | Permalink | Reply

Brilliant stuff, thanks!