Title: Browser Tab Description
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Browser Tab Description

 *  [Peter Wilson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter-wilson/)
 * (@peter-wilson)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/browser-tab-description/)
 * I will start by saying that I am totally new to all this so please bear with 
   me. I have developed a Website using Theme: Twenty Twelve and have the WordPress
   SEO plugin by Yoast. This has helped me focus specifically on page titles and
   meta descriptions. However, the page title appears as the heading to the browser
   tab whereas I would prefer it to show the Site Title as defined in General Settings&
   if possible to also show the site logo. Is this possible ?

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/browser-tab-description/#post-4525116)
 * You actually don’t want the page title shown on the borwser window to be the 
   site title on all of your pages. This will have a (probably slight) negative 
   effect on your SEO. The page titles should be unique and descriptive to the page
   that they are on.
 *  Thread Starter [Peter Wilson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter-wilson/)
 * (@peter-wilson)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/browser-tab-description/#post-4525306)
 * From what I can see, the default heading on the browser tab is page title | site
   title. This is how I understand this line from the header.php file <title><?php
   wp_title( ‘|’, true, ‘right’ ); ?></title>. I did try reversing the code but 
   didn’t quite get the syntax right. But I am new to all this and am happy to learn
   from others.
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/browser-tab-description/#post-4525323)
 * If you’re using the Yoast SEO plugin I’d remove the extra parts in the `wp_title()`
   call. That way Yoast SEO will look after it and put in what you are after, and
   you can change it on a page-by-page basis as you need to.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/browser-tab-description/#post-4525323)
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