Hyphen After Site Name

It is that way in the site title in the source code, <title>The Identity Shift – </title>

Either in your wp settings you have it like that or in an SEO plugin if you are using one. Look in the dashboard, settings, general.

While your SEO plugin may ultimately have some affect on the appearance of the title, it looks like the hyphen being used as a separator is being defined in /response/core/actions/header-actions.php starting on line 91.

The opening and closing title tags appear at lines 105 and 146 respectively, and it looks like the separator (hyphen) is referenced several times between those tags.

Example: echo ' - ';

[edit] if you left your site tag line blank in general settings, I think that might explain the title and the hyphen only, when on your front page.

Also I’m having trouble locating /response/core/actions/header-actions.php is it in the editor? I can’t seem to find it.

You won’t be able to use the built in editor on the file because it’s located in a sub-directory of the theme. You will have to use your ftp client or file manager to access the file for editing.

So do i need to just delete the hyphen everywhere it occurs between line 91 and 146?

The file is well commented, so once you see it, you will be able to tell what titles, and on what pages, will be affected if you change anything. Don’t forget to explore the settings in your SEO plugin. There may be some title settings you can change there as well.

Some reference material for the title function: Function Reference/wp title

You’re welcome!