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Faddah Wolf
12,811 Pointswhy isn't single_post_title() the correct answer??
I am doing the WordPress Development track and am in the quiz for PHP for WordPress. The question asks — write out the template tag to echo out the title of a page of post. That is listed in both the WordPress Codex for Template Tags and in the common theme WordPress index.php file as single_post_title(). However, when I put that as the answer, it keeps telling me "Bummer!" and saying it's wrong. I have now reviewed the video and WordPress Codex on template tags several times, and all tried wp_title(), and nothing shows as correct for this answer. I don't feel this material was properly gone over in any of the videos. What is going on here, please?
— faddah portland, oregon, u.s.a.
2 Answers
Tim Knight
28,888 PointsHi Faddah,
What you're looking for is actually the_title(). You can read more information about that at https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_title. Using the_title() references the current post's title where wp_title() is the default title of the blog/site.
Faddah Wolf
12,811 PointsThank you. However, that is not covered well in the videos or material, at all. What is shown in the videos and in index.php is single_post_title(). I feel someone should inform Zac Gordon and/or whomever else put together this course and it should be clearer in the videos or the quiz should be changed, please. That is my suggestion.
best,
— faddah portland, oregon, u.s.a.
Tim Knight
28,888 PointsYou're right Faddah, it really isn't. You might consider sending an email to help@teamtreehouse.com just to let them know your feedback directly. I think what they were probably trying to do, based on the "Template Tags" video was to give you a reason to navigation and look through the various template tags within the https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags page that Zac Gordon was showing you. But you're right, it could probably be much more clear.