It looks like this is still unresolved in 1.5.3.3
Is this on the developer bug list as an open item?
All: The whole replace functionality has been rewritten/refactored now. If you are willing and able, if would be great if you could test this. The changes are available in the [master branch](https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/archive/master.zip) of the github repo.
Jrf —
I am STILL having issues with this test release. Yoast ‘Title’ hasn’t worked well for me since Version 1.5.2.8
Please look at the image below. You will see an image of 3 tabs from my browser.
1. The first tab is using Yoast Version 1.5.2.8. You will see the Title shows up PERFECTLY!
2. The second tab shows the current Version 1.5.3.3 where it is showing %%Test%%
3. The third tab shows the master.zip you posted here. The %%Title%% is gone, but also is the page title completely. It is just showing the title of the website
Tab Image
Please note all these tabs were minutes apart with no coding changes, just the change of Yoast plugin.
I will leave the page with the MASTER.ZIP Yoast SEO plugin on so you can see. No page title shows up.
Website Page
THANK YOU for trying to fix this. I REALLY appreciate it.
@theirishgem What plugin are you using for these posts and what settings have you got set for that particular post type in the WPSEO Titles & Metas settings ?
JRF – Thank you for the reply. The plugin is Optima Express by iHomefinder. I am pretty sure it is the same plugin the original poster of this thread uses.
I have contacted iHomefinder and they said the problem IS the Yoast SEO plugin.
I have the zip file for Yoast SEO Version 1.5.2.8 and the one you posted here a test for the next release.
The problem IS the Yoast plugin, because I can upload the Version 1.5.2.8 and the title of the page shows up perfectly.
After Version 1.5.2.8, Yoast made changes and the Title stopped working.
The pages are within the Plugin and not something created by me.
I don’t think the bug has anything to do with Titles and Meta settings since they weren’t changed and the Title shows up fine with Version 1.5.2.8. I would think if the coding was off there the Title wouldn’t show up with that Version. It is very confusing.
The website I posted above is a test page, I have the latest Version of Yoast on my site because I am not sure how to downgrade to Version 1.5.2.8 without losing all my settings. I had someone back in March configure Yoast plugin for me. It worked great until the changes made by Yoast in the latest Plugin releases.
If this cannot be fixed, please just tell me the best way to downgrade without losing my settings. I would be GLAD to downgrade so the Title works property.
Thank you SO much! I appreciate your help.
@theirishgem Thanks for getting back to me.
The plugin is Optima Express by iHomefinder. I am pretty sure it is the same plugin the original poster of this thread uses.
I have contacted iHomefinder and they said the problem IS the Yoast SEO plugin.
We’ve seen problems with Optima Express before. As it works with all normal post types and most other custom post types, I wouldn’t be so sure that the problem is WPSEO…
Technical: WPSEO looks at the post object and retrieves information from it if it’s available. As we can’t seem to retrieve that information from an Optima Express post object, it seems to me they are changing the post object in a non-standard way.
I don’t think the bug has anything to do with Titles and Meta settings since they weren’t changed and the Title shows up fine with Version 1.5.2.8.
The reason I asked is to check whether the post type is being registered properly. If the custom post type shows up on the Title and Metas page, that should be fine though.
The website I posted above is a test page, I have the latest Version of Yoast on my site because I am not sure how to downgrade to Version 1.5.2.8 without losing all my settings.
You can downgrade without losing your settings using FTP. FTP into your webserver, go to wp-content/plugin/wordpress-seo/ Delete everything within that folder. Now upzip the v1.5.2.8 version locally and upload the files via FTP to the same folder.
Your settings should be fine. Even so, it’s always a good idea to backup both your files and your database before doing anything like this.
Hope this helps.
JRF —
Thank you for all of your help!! I will downgrade for now.
Since I don’t want to stay at Version 1.5.2.8 forever, do you know if Yoast will be resolving the issue or is it more with the Optima Express plugin and Yoast won’t make any changes?
I sort of understand the tech part you mentioned, but it seems like the change was made within Yoast to no longer accept these types of pages.
Not sure if it’s best that I keep Yoast or change IDX companies.
@theirishgem I haven’t got a clue about what Yoast will be doing about it. Probably nothing as I’ve been doing the refactoring of the variable replacements functionality, so I suspect he’ll leave it up to me 😉
The change which is most likely the cause of the issue is this pull request.
Technical details:
Previously WPSEO checked that a post id variable was available to retrieve a title so it had the necessary info to retrieve the post title.
The change made it so that not only a post id has to be available, but it can’t be empty either. Not such a strange check to do really as retrieving a title based on an empty post id should never resolve.
For some strange reason it seems that Optima is passing an empty post id which is the cause of the title not resolving anymore. That is a problem they *should* solve as it seem to me that’s bad practice.
At the same time, with the refactor, we may be able to remove the id check altogether for the title. I’ll look into that and if so, will change the code.
Hope that helps.
Got it! Thank you so much! I will pass along this information to the creators of iHomefinder.
I really appreciate your help! I really love the Yoast plugin and want to keep it.
@theirishgem – I’ve made the change I mentioned. It has not been merged yet into the plugin, but I expect it will be before the next release, so hopefully that will fix your issue.
Just to add some clarification, it appears that iHomefinder passes an empty post_id due to its dynamic on-the-fly page rendering – to reduce performance hits and avoid +K’s of pages in the WordPress post table. These are virtual pages without post_id.
So the WPSEO handling for empty post_id requires a work around to handle this case as it did prior to the more recent versions of WPSEO.
Thank you so much! I love the Yoast plugin.
Any word from Yoast or team when the next WPSEO release will hit WP?
When will this release be available? Been waiting a couple of weeks and would love to know if the problem is resolved or not. I have been holding off on downgrading.
Thanks
