Title: Post title template doesn't apply
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Post title template doesn't apply

 *  [lofaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lofaro/)
 * (@lofaro)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-template-doesnt-apply/)
 * Hi everybody!
 * I do not understand why my post title template doesn’t apply when I create a 
   new post.
 * My template is: %%title%% %%sep%% %%category%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
    However,
   when I create a new post with title “Hello world it’s me” and with category “
   Test”, all I have in “Title SEO” field is “Hello world it’s me – -“
 * I have WordPress 4.1, SEO WordPress 1.7.1 and Twenty Fourteen 1.3.
 * Does someone have an idea please?
    Thank you in advance! 🙂
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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 *  Thread Starter [lofaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lofaro/)
 * (@lofaro)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-template-doesnt-apply/#post-5728254)
 * There is another problem: when I open/create a post, the section “meta description”
   remains empty whereas I previously set a meta description template…
    It’s weird
   because the “Snippet preview” section shows my meta description template correctly…

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-title-template-doesnt-apply/#post-5728254)
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