iamchetanp / changing-your-site-tagline

This is a tutorial to demonstrate how one can change the tagline of their WordPress site.

How to Change "Just another WordPress site" tagline

Description

On most occasions once completed an WordPress installation, one finds "Just another WordPress site " tagline on their site.

Leaving this tagline in place often makes the site not look good.

It is easy to change this. This lesson shows how to change this, step by step.

Objectives

After completing this lesson, participants will be able to:

• Modify their WordPress site tagline.

Target Audience

• Users / Content Writers
• Designers
• Developers
• Speakers
• Organizers
• Kids

Experience Level

• Beginner
• Intermediate
• Advanced

Type of Instruction

• Demonstration
• Discussion
• Exercises
• Feedback
• Lecture (Presentation)
• Slides
• Show & Tell
• Tutorial

Time Estimate (Duration)

• 1 hour or less
• 2-4 hours (half-day)
• 5-8 hours (full-day)
• 2 days
• 3 days or more

Prerequisite Skills

Participants will get the most from this lesson if they have familiarity with:

• The settings lesson.

Readiness Questions

• Does your site have the "Just another WordPress site tagline in the header or the title bar?"

Slides

• Slides (files included in this repo)

Materials Needed

• A local installation of WordPress

Notes for the Presenter

• This lesson should alternate between the slides and the live demo. As a presenter you need a working local WordPress installation for the live demos

Lesson Outline

• Talk about what a tagline is and show locations where it may be displayed on a WordPress site. (Mostly on the Menubar and Title).
• Demonstrate how to change the tagline.
• Practice exercises for students to learn how to change the tagline

Exercises

Demonstrate changing WordPress site Tagline

This exercise helps learners practically change the site tagline in WordPress

• On an existing WordPress installation change the site tagline to your desired tagline.

Assessment

There should be one assement item (or more) for each objective listed above. Each assessment item should support an objective; there should be none that don't.

What is a tagline ?.

1. A word with a tag in WordPress
2. A short description of your entire site
3. Tags on a post
4. The copyright footer on the site footer

Answer: 3. Correct answer

Additional Resources

• How to clear your cache here

Lesson Walkthrough

By default, WordPress uses "Just another WordPress site" as a tagline when you first create a website.

This tagline is often displayed on various places in the site including:

1. The menu bar

2. The tab description on most browsers

Changing the Tagline

Method 1 : The settings page

To change the wordpress tagline, navigate to your WordPress settings.

First you'll need to log into the Admin dashboard. This is commonly done by adding /wp-admin to the site URL.

SITE_URL/wp-admin

Once logged in you will need to go to Settings>>General and you'll see the site tagline field.

You can change the tagline or remove it by clearing the field.

1. Leaving it blank

2. Adding a preferred tagline

Once you have done this scroll down and click the save changes button.

Method 2: The theme customizer

Another method of changing the wordpress tagline, navigate to your theme customizer.

First you'll need to log into the Admin dashboard. This is commonly done by adding /wp-admin to the site URL.

SITE_URL/wp-admin

Once logged in you will need to go to Apprearance>>Customize Click on site identity.

Change the tagline or remove it by clearing the field

Once you've done all this, Click on Publish.

Confirm your changes

After saving the change it shall be published on your WordPress site.

Troubleshooting

If the tagline still remains the same, try doing a hard reload of the page or clearing your cache.

Lesson Wrap Up

Follow with the Exercises and Assessment outlined above.