There seems to be a bug in a Wordpress PHP function that leaves whitespace in front of the title of the page generated by I
Just to throw in some variety here: trim
<body id="<?=trim(wp_title('', false));?>">
ltrim()
Thanks for this info! I was in the same boat in that I needed to generate page ids for CSS purposes based on the page title and the above solution worked beautifully.
I ended up having an additional hurdle in that some pages have titles with embedded spaces, so I ended up coding this:
<?php echo str_replace(' ','-',trim(wp_title('',false))); ?>
add this to your functions.php
add_filter('wp_title', create_function('$a, $b','return str_replace(" $b ","",$a);'), 10, 2);
should work like a charm
ltrim($str)
Strip all whitespace from the left end of the title:
<?php echo ltrim(wp_title('')); ?>
Strip all whitespace from either end:
<?php echo trim(wp_title('')); ?>
Strip all spaces from the left end of the title:
<?php echo ltrim(wp_title(''), ' '); ?>
Remove the first space, even if it's not the first character:
<?php echo str_replace(' ', '', wp_title(''), 1); ?>
Strip only a single space (not newline, not tab) at the beginning:
<?php echo preg_replace('/^ /', '', wp_title('')); ?>
Strip the first character, whatever it is:
<?php echo substr(wp_title(''), 1); ?>
From the Wordpress documentation on wp_title, it appears that wp_title displays the title itself unless you pass false for the second parameter, in which case it returns it. So try:
<?php echo trim(wp_title('', false)); ?>