Remove the prepended ‘Category:’ or ‘Archive:’ when trying to echo the name of the archive in WordPress.
// Remove category, tag, name etc from name of archives function my_theme_archive_title( $title ) { if ( is_category() ) { $title = single_cat_title( '', false ); } elseif ( is_tag() ) { $title = single_tag_title( '', false ); } elseif ( is_author() ) { $title = '<span class="vcard">' . get_the_author() . '</span>'; } elseif ( is_post_type_archive() ) { $title = post_type_archive_title( '', false ); } elseif ( is_tax() ) { $title = single_term_title( '', false ); } return $title; } add_filter( 'get_the_archive_title', 'my_theme_archive_title' );