For menu item other than article - won't show page header H1

Question

When I have menu items (other than articles) and

Page Display -> Show Page Heading = YES
Page Display -> Page Heading = BlaBlaBla....

I do not see any Page Header. This works only if the menu item is an article! Am I right and how to make appear Page Headers (with H1 tag) on any menu item (for any component)?

PS: saw this code in this forum:

<?php if ($this->params->get('show_page_heading', 1)) : ?>
<div class="page-header">
    <h1> <?php echo $this->escape($this->params->get('page_heading')); ?> </h1>
</div>
<?php endif;?>

but it didn't work.

Answer 1

Indeed it is up to each component to produce the display, and thus whether or not to include the page heading param from the menu item. I have seen some templates also implement page titles too. You could of course make template overrides for all the component views, but I think that's a little impractical. If I was trying to get consistent menu param driven titles on every page for every component I would use a custom module and then hide all the headings I didn't wish to see.