The end of last night, 1.5 hours this morning and an hour of a little person’s nap just now were all an exercise in frustration. I could not figure out how to do the simple task of updating what I thought was my tagline in the WordPress Hueman theme. I saved the new tagline successfully: the Appearance -> Customize -> Web Page Design -> Site Identity: Logo, Title, Tagline and Site Icon -> Tagline matched the Settings -> General -> Tagline. However, the changes did not appear in the blog.
Maybe it was a length problem. I am known for my style of writing long descriptive code function names at work. I shortened my tagline and hit save. No dice.
Perhaps there is a caching problem. I updated the current header photo and hit save. When I hit refresh on a different tab it updated immediately. Dang. At least I proved the problem is solvable in real time. I just had to figured it out…
The answer to solve your “tagline” problem:
I started looking at the html source code, searching for the offending old tagline. I also noticed the new tagline was in there too, just in different html tags. Part of my problem was the tagline and <hu-blog-subheading> originally matched leading me to look at the tagline. Instead, the real problem was <hu-blog-subheading>. So the new quest was finding and changing <hu-blog-subheading>.
I am kinda surprised at the lack of discussion on the internet. I don’t think I am the only one who ended up using the same phrase in both the tagline and in the Blog Sub-Heading. My suspicion is perhaps I did not enter in the Blog Sub-Heading myself: the Hueman Theme was attempting to be helpful in filling out the field for me? I had originally set up the webpage to default to the blog and had recently changed it to a static page. Perhaps it was one of the repercussions of that decision?
It is hard to say because I have had this blog for a whole two weeks and seem to be working on a degree in web savviness. In my simplified life prior to two weeks ago I did not think about SEO, RSS, Pinterest, email lists, and the bane of my writing: passive sentences. I digress…
How to fix your “tagline” problem:
- In your wordpress dashboard go to Appearance -> Customize -> Main Body Design -> Post Lists Design and Content : Blog, Archives, Search Results
- Notice the lovely Blog Sub-Heading.
- Profit!
In an attempt to help you, fellow Googler, (and quite honestly for entertainment purposes too since it was pretty ridiculous) here is my long, drawn out laundry list of history. This was my attempt to get an answer out of the internet:
human tagline character limit <–initially thought my tagline was too long
hueman theme tagline character limit
wordpress why does my tagline not change hueman theme
wordpress why does my tagline not update
wordpress why does my tagline not change
tagline in general settings saved, but not viewable
tagline saved, but not viewable
tagline changes won’t save
wordpress why does my tagline not change
tagline saved, but not updating
tagline hidden in hueman theme
tagline overwritten by old tagline
site tagline not changing
where is <title></title> tag in hueman theme
hu-blog-subheading is wrong <–looking at my source code at this point
hu-blog-subheading where is it located
tagline will not update
deselect site description but still appears
deselect tagline but still appears
hueman tagline problem
hueman tagline problems
hu-blog-subheading is not updating
hu-blog-subheading not updating
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