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1. TimmyDee
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I'm getting an extra site title tacked on to the end of my title tag when the Yoast SEO plugin is active. Deactivating the plugin removes it. Not sure where this is creeping in—I don't have anything changed from the default title settings. Seems like it could be a bug.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/

2. JL
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I'm getting
   'post title - blog name'
   and I don't need the 'blog name' part because that's put in through my Thesis theme as
   'post title | blog name' so I delete it each time manually.
   Now, if it stopped there it would be OK, but I see in the search engines it's also added the site name. Although I don't see it in the Admin area, I'm now being indexed as
   'post title | blog name - site name'.
   Not good. Can anyone please tell me how to get rid of the 'site name' part of it?

3. Rain into Rainbows
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Same error here as well. It took me awhile to figure it out. I posted about it here. I really love the plugin but have had to disable it until this can get worked out.

   Would love to hear when there's a solution.

4. Peter Wooster
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I had the same problem, it was that the theme was adding the site name and other stuff to the title. Your theme's header.php must be as described in the titles section of the seo admin:
   

   Be aware that for WordPress SEO to be able to modify your page titles, the title section of your header.php file should look like this:
   
   <title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>
   If you can't modify or don't know how to modify your template, check the box below. Be aware that changing your template will be faster.

   I changed that in my custom theme (based on ToolBox) and it worked properly.

   /peter

5. JL
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   What's confusing me about that is that my header.php presently looks like this:

   <?php
   
   function thesis_header_area() {
   	thesis_hook_before_header();
   	thesis_header();
   	thesis_hook_after_header();
   }
   
   function thesis_header() {
   	echo "\t<div id=\"header\">\n";
   	thesis_hook_header();
   	echo "\t</div>\n";
   }
   
   function thesis_default_header() {
   	thesis_hook_before_title();
   	thesis_title_and_tagline();
   	thesis_hook_after_title();
   }

   Am I supposed to delete all that and put this instead?

   <title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>

   It seems to me something is going to go seriously wrong with that.

6. liliie
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   If you are using Thesis to manage your titles you need to remove the WordPress SEO by Yoast title action with the following code. Paste this into your custom_functions.php

   remove_filter('wp_title', array($wpseo_front, 'title'), 10, 3);

7. macjoost
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   I also think it's a bug. The plugin does not seem to honor its own "Force rewrite titles" setting.

   Above suggestion is a good workaround.

   In the plugin code, the __constructor function of WPSEO_Frontend needs to be changed so that add_filter( 'wp_title' ... ) is only run when 'forcerewritetitle' is ON.

8. garotog
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Installed 1.1.5. version on WordPress 3.3.1. but I am confuse with the title settings on my header.php. I notice repetitive titles in some pages, example:

   Title is showing as:
   <title> Marina District - Downtown San Diego Real Estate | Condos & Lofts - San Diego Real Estate </title>

   Instead of showing:
   <title> Marina District - Downtown San Diego Real Estate | Condos & Lofts</title>
   which is what I have on 'SEO Title' under the page edit ('Snippet Preview' shows the same).

   Do I need to change my title on my header.php to <title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title> when I currently have :

   <title>
   <?php if (function_exists('is_tag') && is_tag()) {
   single_tag_title('Tag Archive for "'); echo '" - ';
   } elseif (is_archive()) {
   wp_title(''); echo ' Archive - ';
   } elseif (is_search()) {
   echo 'Search for "'.wp_specialchars($s).'" - ';
   } elseif (!(is_404()) && (is_single()) || (is_page())) {
   wp_title(''); echo ' - ';
   } elseif (is_404()) {
   echo 'Not Found - ';
   }
   if (is_home()) {
   bloginfo('name'); echo ' - '; bloginfo('description');
   } else {
   bloginfo('name');
   } if ($paged > 1)
   { echo ' - page '. $paged;
   } ?>
   </title>

   Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

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