WordPress: Remove get_the_title from my content template - php

Question

I'm running a variation of the _underscores theme for my clients site and we already have the page or post title displayed in a custom header element, so it doesn't need to be inside of the loop anymore on template-parts/content.php. I thought just deleting 'get_the_title' would eliminate seeing the title in the body of my post, but instead, I just got a variety of errors like 'unexpected ')'' or similar. So how do I get rid of the get_the_title reference and still make this valid? Here's what I have currently.
<div class="entry-content">
<?php if ( is_category() || is_archive() ) {
the_excerpt('');
} else {
the_content( sprintf(
wp_kses(
/* translators: %s: Name of current post. Only visible to screen readers */
__( 'Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "%s"</span>', 'orchestra' ),
array(
'span' => array(
'class' => array(),
),
)
),
get_the_title()
) );
if ( is_category() || is_archive() ) {
echo '<p class="btn-cc">Read More</p>';
}
wp_link_pages( array(
'before' => '<div class="page-links">' . esc_html__( 'Pages:', 'orchestra' ),
'after' => '</div>',
) );
}
?>

Answer 1

The formatting on this makes it relatively hard to read. So first I'd clean that up a bit. If you look at the documentation for the_content() you'll see that the first parameter is the $more_text_link. So lines 5 through 15 are adding a "Continue Reading [Post Title]" test.
If you don't need that at all, you can just use the_content() like so:
<div class="entry-content">
<?php
if( is_category() || is_archive() ){
the_excerpt('');
} else {
the_content();
if( is_category() || is_archive() ){
echo '<p class="btn-cc">Read More</p>';
}
wp_link_pages( array(
'before' => '<div class="page-links">' . esc_html__( 'Pages:', 'orchestra' ),
'after' => '</div>',
) );
}
?>
Otherwise, you'll want to add in your own default text:
<div class="entry-content">
<?php
if( is_category() || is_archive() ){
the_excerpt('');
} else {
the_content( 'Continue Reading' );
if( is_category() || is_archive() ){
echo '<p class="btn-cc">Read More</p>';
}
wp_link_pages( array(
'before' => '<div class="page-links">' . esc_html__( 'Pages:', 'orchestra' ),
'after' => '</div>',
) );
}
?>