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October 29, 2015 at 7:10 pm

None of those look suspect because they don’t do add_filter('widget_title', 'some_function_name');

October 30, 2015 at 7:59 am

Hi Jeff,

It turns out the theme is manipulating the widget titles, with JavaScript! So here’s the code that’s in play from the theme’s custom.js starting on line 22:

$('.king-sidebar h3.widget-title,.footer h3.widget-title').each(function(){
	var html = this.innerHTML;
	if( html.indexOf(' ') > -1 ){
		var title = html.substring( 0 , html.indexOf(' ') );
		title += '<i>'+html.substring( html.indexOf(' '), html.length )+'</i>';
		this.innerHTML = title;
	}
});

While removing it would work to fix, that would be kind of hacky because your changes would be lost on an update. Another solution that could work for you is just filter the before_title and after_title so the widget titles are not h3, so they no longer are affected by the above code. You can add the following to your child theme’s functions.php file to change the widget titles to wrap in h4’s:

function my_edit_linstar_widget_title_before_after($params) {
    $params[0]['before_title'] = '<h4 class="' . $params[0]['widget_name'] . '">' ;
    $params[0]['after_title'] = '</h4>' ;
    return $params;
}
add_filter('dynamic_sidebar_params', 'my_edit_linstar_widget_title_before_after');