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@mikey3D – there is something wrong in your set up. The default installation/theme shows the title tag with spaces between the words.

Are you using the default theme unmodified? Have you got any additional plugins running?

Switch to default theme, disable all plugins and let us know if the title tags now have spaces

@mikey3D

Yes, sorry – I only checked a multi-word post title.

You are correct, categories and tag page titles are behaving differently in default BuddyPress vs. default WordPress install

The function that builds the title in BuddyPress is bp_page_title(). In WordPress it’s wp_title()

The WP function is doing a lot more work with the category and tag slug, taking the name slug it’s been passed (with the hyphens inserted) and looking up the correct (non-hyphenated) title to insert.

OK, two things I suggest:

1. Report this, and suggest that the bp_page_title() function should behave the same as wp_title() for categories, tags, etc. This would be the sensible way for the function to behave IMO. @hnla – is adding this to the trac, the correct way to raise this a possible fix?

2. For a quick fix, code your own title function, and replace the call to bp_page_title() in your header.php with a call to your own function

The function may look a little daunting, but should be reasonably straightforward with a bit of judicious copying and pasting from the existing BP and WP functions.

Cheers, Roger

@mikey3d did you follow point 2 that Roger explained above? there is no ‘Patch’ as such only what we( the community) can run up given the spare time. tbh this is something I would have not been too concerned with and awaited a core patch in a future release (I have suggested a core patch to address the problem, but that will probably be applied in 1.3 – too late to get in to 1.2.6)

If you want you can try this quick fix I’ve run up by exacting the relevant section from the core function and applying it as a filter in functions.php – it’s not widely tested and slightly hackish but appears to work:

`function bp_page_title_blog_category_remove_hyphens( $title ) {
global $bp, $wp_query;
if ( defined( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’ ) ) {
$blog_title = get_blog_option( $current_blog->blog_id, ‘blogname’ );
} else {
$blog_title = get_blog_option( BP_ROOT_BLOG, ‘blogname’ );
}
if ( bp_is_blog_page() && is_category() )
$title = __( $blog_title . ‘| Blog | Categories | ‘ . ucwords( $wp_query->query_vars ), ‘buddypress’ );
$title = str_replace(‘-‘, ‘ ‘, $title);
return $title;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_page_title’, ‘bp_page_title_blog_category_remove_hyphens’ );
`

Let us know if that works for you?

here’s a quick adaptation then to give you all words uppercase, as for the order things are written in if you look at the first instance of $title you will see how the various parts are constructed, it’s a string so follows the order you read in, have a play around to get the order of things the way you want. if you want specific characters then you need to look up ‘html character entity codes’ to get things like ‘ » ‘

`function bp_page_title_blog_category_remove_hyphens( $title ) {
global $bp, $wp_query;
if ( defined( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’ ) ) {
$blog_title = get_blog_option( $current_blog->blog_id, ‘blogname’ );
} else {
$blog_title = get_blog_option( BP_ROOT_BLOG, ‘blogname’ );
}
if ( bp_is_blog_page() && is_category() )
$title = __( $blog_title . ‘| Blog | Categories | ‘ . $wp_query->query_vars , ‘buddypress’ );
$title = str_replace(‘-‘, ‘ ‘, $title);
$title = ucwords($title);
return $title;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_page_title’, ‘bp_page_title_blog_category_remove_hyphens’ );`