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1. BrittaB
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Hello friendly wordpressers,
   I'm very new to all of this, and am learning as I go, building my very first website here... Got a few pages together, created a childtheme of TwentyTen to protect my edits, and have published.

   Now, when I search for my website in google search engine, my homepage shows up with the name of my website plus "I my tagline". How can I remove that? I just want it to show up with the name of my website. I have already removed the tagline from my website, but I don't like how it shows up in google, and yahoo...
   I want to try to make my site look a little more professional :) any help greatly appreciated!

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 8 months ago #

   header.php:

   // Add the blog description for the home/front page.
   	$site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
   	if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
   		echo " | $site_description";

   try and remove this section

3. BrittaB
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Unfortunately I don't have the header.php file in my child theme editor. Only the CSS style sheet. How can I get that, and the others too I assume?

4. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 8 months ago #

   copy header.php from the parent theme into the child theme and edit it there.

5. BrittaB
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   thanks alchemyth. where do I copy it to? sorry, I'm truly a novice at this...

6. BrittaB
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   alright, got the header.php file...
   Thank you, I did remove the section you recommended, but didn't work: the name of my website still shows up with I my tagline in google search.
   Any other idea how to remove that?
   Thanks!!

7. Scott Kingsley Clark
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   @BrittaB - If you see your title as correct on your site when you browse it, then Google will likely catch up soon during their next indexing which can sometimes be a few days to a week or so.

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