Jim

That did the trick! I just had to kind of reverse the logic and get page name in there.

I don’t quite understand the formatting in the sprintf(); h1 vs. p. On all my pages, including the home/front page (http://109.73.239.174/~cookand3/forestpathology.org/), it seems to be using <p>, and the appearance is the same on all the pages.

Here’s the working filter in case someone else is trying to do the same thing. Thank you so much Tom!

add_filter( 'generate_site_title_output', 'tu_adjust_site_title' );
function tu_adjust_site_title( $output ) {
	$site_title = get_bloginfo( 'name' );
	$page_name = get_the_title($post->ID);

	// alter title for all but front page
	if( !(is_front_page()) ) {
		$site_title = "{$page_name} | {$site_title}"; }
	
	return sprintf( 
		'<%1$s class="main-title" itemprop="headline">
			<a href="%2$s" rel="home">
				%3$s
			</a>
		</%1$s>',
		( is_front_page() && is_home() ) ? 'h1' : 'p',
		esc_url( apply_filters( 'generate_site_title_href', home_url( '/' ) ) ),
		$site_title
	);
}

EDIT: Oh, maybe is_home() refers to the Blog page (Posts). There the header text is showing as “| Forest Pathology”. Still not sure why that is.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Jim.

FYI, I got some feedback from The SEO Framework developer:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-turn-automated-title-settings-off/#post-9937205

It would be nice to have an option to have the header content text be the same as the title tag (although with appropriate styling). Or to explicitly make it page name | site name except for home page.

As far as the need for it, here’s my thinking: the theme provides a way to put nice featured images below the header, which is a beautiful thing. But a good-sized featured image means the content below with page title may not show when the page appears, and the visitor has no indication what page they are on, unless they squint at the browser tab.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Jim.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Jim.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Jim.

I’m sorry for the confusion; I was playing with that SEO option to remove blog name and left it that way. I’ve switched it back.

Yes, if I remove the filter, with SEO the browser tab is correct and what I want, but the title the theme puts in the header is the site name only.

The filter fixes that, but makes the browser tab have the page title twice, as you see.

Using the following simple example in functions.php, I’ve gotten what I want to appear in the browser tab (doc title – site name). But how do I get it in the header?

add_filter('document_title_parts', 'my_doc_title', 10);
function my_doc_title($title){
	$site_name = get_bloginfo( 'name' );
        // change title parts here
        $title['site'] = $site_name; //optional
    return $title; 
}

• This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by Jim.

Sorry to be unclear. Putting line feeds in the “custom summary” caused two <p></p> to be added, which by default have 10 px bottom margin, so I had to fix them to have the same margin as all the meta-elements. All fixed. Thank you!
Jim