How to create a Page without a title

[Paul B]

If, like me, you want to use a Page as a (temporary) Home page, you will notice that the Page title is displayed at the top in H1 text, like so:



This is obviously undesirable as you only want content to be displayed.

You can't create a Page without a title so how can you remove it from just that one Page without editing the template?

Easy. You just edit the xf_node table and change the title field to a single space. Don't leave the field blank as the board title will be used instead of the Page title in that case.
Setting the title to a space results in this:



If you do this, it's important that you uncheck "Display in the node list" in ACP -> Applications -> Node Tree, otherwise you'll end up with a phantom page icon on forum home:

 

[Paul B]

An alternative (and better) suggestion from Mike is to add this to the template HTML for the Page:

<xen:title></xen:title>
<xen:h1></xen:h1>

That has the same effect but it doesn't affect the page title in forum home so it can still be displayed as a normal node.

 

[ArnyVee]

Brogan, is there a way to have the 'description' still show but not the title? This would allow for images or html to display and I can create a little mini-navigation menu. Is this possible?

 

[ragtek]

Have you tried to add
<xen:title></xen:title> to the template?

 

[ArnyVee]

Yes, by doing that it still allows the title to display along with the description.