Filter and clean the Archive Title

This client wanted to feature their archive titles in a large hero area. The PSD excluded the prefixes like, “Category:”, “Tag:”, “Author:”, etc…

The snippet below allows you to strip out the prefixes used in the get_the_archive_title(); function, as well as any HTML tags.

Screenshot of the “clean” archive title.

Jeremy Pry helped me solve this by inserting this regular expression into PHP’s preg_replace();  function. It executes a find and replace on the $title variable.

https://gist.github.com/gregrickaby/a15422be00e46e3ec5532f9bdd9ed484