Changing All Caps Blog Titles To First Letter Caps

[Maccsta]

All my blog titles are written in ALL CAPS and there are literally thousands. Is there any way to change the title automatically to just having the first letter of each word in caps?

E.g. change ‘MY BLOG TITLE’ to ‘My Blog Title’ for all my blog titles

Changing them all manually would take far too long. Thought someone on here might know a quick solution with Serendipity.

Thanks for any suggestions

[sonichouse]

The easiest/quickest way is to edit your stylesheet and add

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text-transform:capitalize;

to your h1.

[yellowled]

The easiest/quickest way is to edit your stylesheet and add

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text-transform:capitalize;

to your h1.

... if your entry title is in fact a h1.

It really depends on your template, but usually

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.serendipity_title { text-transform: capitalize; }

is more likely to work.

YL

[Maccsta]

The easiest/quickest way is to edit your stylesheet and add

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text-transform:capitalize;

to your h1.

Thanks sonichouse. However the title remains the same when I add that to the CSS file.

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#serendipity_banner h1 {
text-transform:capitalize;
}

Also I noticed if I use {text-transform:lowercase} the banner text changes to lowercase but the title in my browser remains the same in All Caps.

[Maccsta]

The easiest/quickest way is to edit your stylesheet and add

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text-transform:capitalize;

to your h1.

... if your entry title is in fact a h1.

It really depends on your template, but usually

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.serendipity_title { text-transform: capitalize; }

is more likely to work.

YL

Hi Yellowled thanks.

This just changes the title above the blog post, not the banner title and more importantly the title in my browser menu bar.

However because my title is all caps already using capatalize will have no effect. I was wanting the title in title case ie 'My Blog Title' not 'MY BLOG TITLE'

[sonichouse]

However because my title is all caps already using capatalize will have no effect. I was wanting the title in title case ie 'My Blog Title' not 'MY BLOG TITLE'

Can you post a link to your site ?
Might be easier to diagnose

You may need to edit the index.tpl to add

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capitalize:true

as a smarty modifier to the title block - although I haven't tested this myself.
e.g.

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<title>{$head_title|@default:$blogTitle|capitalize:true} {if $head_subtitle} - {$head_subtitle|capitalize:true}{/if}</title>

[yellowled]

I was wanting the title in title case ie 'My Blog Title' not 'MY BLOG TITLE'

You can simply change the blog title in your admin backend. "Administration/Configuration" -> "General settings" -> "Blog name" (and optionally "Blog description").

If those are not in capital letters, your template is modifying them. In that case, you're gonna have to modify your index.tpl the way sonichouse pointed out.

YL

[Maccsta]

However because my title is all caps already using capatalize will have no effect. I was wanting the title in title case ie 'My Blog Title' not 'MY BLOG TITLE'

Can you post a link to your site ?
Might be easier to diagnose

You may need to edit the index.tpl to add

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capitalize:true

as a smarty modifier to the title block - although I haven't tested this myself.
e.g.

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<title>{$head_title|@default:$blogTitle|capitalize:true} {if $head_subtitle} - {$head_subtitle|capitalize:true}{/if}</title>

Thanks sonichouse. Only just come back to this because these changes weren't top priority, but I was able to achieve what I wanted with:

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<title>{$head_title|@default:$blogTitle|lower|capitalize:true} {if $head_subtitle} - {$head_subtitle|lower|capitalize:true}{/if}</title>

I added "lower" smarty command and was able to turn the title to lowercase and "capitalize" gave me title case.

Thanks again

[sonichouse]

Thanks sonichouse. Only just come back to this because these changes weren't top priority, but I was able to achieve what I wanted with:

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<title>{$head_title|@default:$blogTitle|lower|capitalize:true} {if $head_subtitle} - {$head_subtitle|lower|capitalize:true}{/if}</title>

I added "lower" smarty command and was able to turn the title to lowercase and "capitalize" gave me title case.

Thanks again

No problem, glad it helped, looks like you have hit the nail on the head