Deactivating all plugins and then upgrading fixed the error for me…
Thanks for the_title(); – it was the last piece in my reworked TITLE coding that was bothering me. The snippet below delivers one set of tags for the homepage, and SEO-optimized TITLEs for post pages (with the post name first, not bloginfo(’name’). Hope it helps someone!
<title><?php if (is_home()) { ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> » Whateveryouwantgoeshere<?php } else { ?><?php the_title(); ?> » <?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php } ?></title>