Tiger Archive Title is the dynamic heading widget you drop into a Theme Builder archive template — category pages, tag pages, custom taxonomy pages, custom post type archives, author pages, date archives, search results, and 404s — so the page always announces where the visitor actually is, without you having to build a separate template for every archive type. Rather than hard-coding text, the widget resolves its heading at request time from WordPress’s own query context, so one archive template can serve dozens of terms or post types and each will render its own correct title automatically.
How it resolves its text
The heart of the widget is the Source control, and understanding its four options is really understanding the whole widget. Auto (any archive) is the default and calls WordPress’s core get_the_archive_title(), the same function core themes use — it already knows how to label a category, tag, taxonomy term, CPT archive, author page, date archive, or 404, so this option “just works” everywhere without configuration. Term / Post-Type Name (no prefix) is a more surgical option: it reads the queried object directly and prints only the bare name — a term’s name, a post type’s plural label, or an author’s display name — with none of the “Category:” / “Tag:” / “Author:” boilerplate core normally prepends. Search Results switches the widget into a different mode, pulling the raw get_search_query() value and combining it with a separate Search Prefix text field (defaulting to “Search results for:”). Custom Text ignores the query context and prints whatever you type into the Custom Text field, which supports Elementor dynamic tags — useful for a static, brand-controlled heading on a template that otherwise reuses this widget for consistent styling.
When Source is set to Auto, a companion switcher called Remove “Category:” Prefix appears (on by default). This toggles WordPress’s get_the_archive_title_prefix filter to an empty string for the call, stripping the “Category:”, “Tag:”, “Archives:” style prefixes core adds and leaving just the term or post-type name. Most modern designs want the bare name with the label handled elsewhere (breadcrumbs, an eyebrow tag), so leaving this on is the common case; turn it off for the classic WordPress-style prefixed heading.
Setup and styling
Below the source controls sit Before Text and After Text, two dynamic-tag-enabled fields that wrap around the resolved title — handy for turning “Coffee” into “Browsing: Coffee” without touching the title logic. HTML Tag picks the semantic wrapper (h1 through h6, div, span, or p); since this is almost always the primary heading, h1 is the sensible default, and you should keep exactly one Tiger Archive Title set to h1 per template. Link to Archive is a switcher that, when the widget can resolve a URL, wraps the rendered title in an anchor to that archive’s canonical URL — useful when the widget is reused somewhere it isn’t the primary on-page heading, such as inside a card.
On the Style tab you get responsive text alignment, and a two-state color system: a Normal tab with a general Text Color plus a separate Query / Term Highlight color that targets only the dynamic portion of the output (wrapped in its own tg-at-dynamic span), letting you render “Search results for:” in muted gray and the typed query in your brand accent color. A Hover tab (shown only when Link to Archive is enabled) controls the anchor’s hover color, plus standard typography, text-shadow, and responsive margin controls.
Non-obvious behavior
Two behaviors are worth knowing before you rely on this widget in production. First, in the editor canvas, if you’re not viewing a live archive or search page (the normal editing situation for a Theme Builder template), the widget cannot query real archive data — so it prints a placeholder like “Archive Title (live on category / tag / CPT / author / search pages)” instead of blank or broken markup. The real title only appears on the front end when the template serves a matching query. Second, if the resolved title text is empty after stripping tags — which can happen on some edge-case queries — the widget renders nothing rather than an empty heading tag, so you won’t see stray empty <h1></h1> markup.
For related pieces of the same template, reach for Tiger Archive Description when you need the term/taxonomy/CPT-archive description text beneath this title, and Tiger Breadcrumbs for a trail rather than a single heading — the two are commonly stacked under Archive Title. Pair with Tiger No Results for the empty-state message, and Tiger Pagination for paging the results list this heading introduces.
Practical tips
- Keep Source on Auto for general-purpose templates reused across categories, tags, and CPT archives — it’s the only option that adapts to every archive type without per-template configuration.
- Reusing this widget elsewhere on the page (e.g., a “Related: X” label inside a card)? Switch Source to Term / Post-Type Name to strip the prefix at the data level rather than fighting it with the strip-prefix switcher, which only applies to Auto.
- Set the Query / Term Highlight color deliberately, even if it matches your base text color at first — it’s the hook that lets you differentiate the variable part of the heading from static text later without touching markup.
- When enabling Link to Archive, remember it silently does nothing if the widget can’t resolve a URL (Custom Text, some 404 contexts) — don’t rely on it to guarantee a clickable heading on every template.