Title: WordPress Title Separator
Last modified: April 13, 2020

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# WordPress Title Separator

 *  [harperaustralia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harperaustralia/)
 * (@harperaustralia)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-title-separator/)
 * Hello, since updating WordPress to 5.4 the page title separator between my brand
   name and the page name has changed from an em dash — to the default double arrow».
   I also have Woocommerce installed and tried the following code in functions.php
   but the separator still shows as a double arrow.
 *     ```
       function custom_document_title_separator( $sep ) {
       	return '|';
       }
       add_filter( 'document_title_separator', 'custom_document_title_separator', 10, 1 );
       ```
   
 * Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
    -  This topic was modified 6 years ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwordpress-title-separator%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Nigel M Rodgers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rodgersnigel/)
 * (@rodgersnigel)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-title-separator/#post-12668341)
 * Hi. I recommend checking in your theme’s customizer. In your admin dashboard 
   got Appearance > Customize. The title separated might be under Site Identity 
   or somewhere else as some themes implement the customizer differently.
 * OR
 * If you have the Yoast SEO plugin, you can try the following tutorial: [https://yoast.com/help/title-separator/](https://yoast.com/help/title-separator/)
 *  Thread Starter [harperaustralia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harperaustralia/)
 * (@harperaustralia)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-title-separator/#post-12670151)
 * Hi [@rodgersnigel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rodgersnigel/) thanks 
   for your response, this is a custom theme that I have coded and there is no option
   under Appearance > Customize to change the separator. I would prefer to not have
   to install another plugin but will definitely consider Yoast SEO if there is 
   no code that can fix this! Thanks

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 * Last reply from: [harperaustralia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harperaustralia/)
 * Last activity: [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-title-separator/#post-12670151)
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