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.
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.
Thank you! Very helpful!