Change page title of custom archive page that is set to the homepage

Question

First, I've reviewed a few questions (including this one, and also tried plugins but I can't get the below working.

I'm using an archive as my homepage;

• The archive is a custom post type of film_kernal.
• The label is Kernals.
• The homepage title is currently Kernals Archive - [Site Title]
• The individual custom taxonomy archive pages have a title of [Taxonomy Term] - [Site Title]

The taxonomy pages have the correct title however I want the homepage to just read Home - [Site Title]. How can this be done without changing the currently correct titles of the taxonomy term pages?

I'm using the TwentySeventeen theme, and the default header file seems to use wp_head to retrieve the title but I'm not confident on how to affect this in a child header file to get things working.

Answer 1

Since you use Yoast you can override the the title tag with this filter

add_filter('wpseo_title', 'filter_film_kernal_wpseo_title');
function filter_film_kernal_wpseo_title($title) {
    if(  YOUR_CASE_HERE ) {
        $title = //your code
    }
    return $title;
}