Posts being titled strangely, adding blog name

  • Resolved voltaicass

    (@voltaicass)


    15 years, 2 months ago

    I’m having a peculiar error. Our website, https://www.mediabreach.com, shows the titles of posts in a manner as follows- “TITLE ? BLOG NAME”.

    Previously, they were all showing as just “TITLE” but now with this extension. I would much rather have this reverted to the old way but nothing I can try seems to make a difference. I’m not certain when it began, but I did have a little trouble with a rogue plug-in last week that brought my whole site down. But now I can place the site into the default theme and disable all plug-ins and the title structure remains…

    If anyone has any insight, I would greatly appreciate it.

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  • Did you make any changes as I’m not seeing this behavior at that url.

    Thread Starter voltaicass

    (@voltaicass)

    You have to go to an individual post. Just click on any of the 10 posts on the front page and the issue should appear.

    Thanks for taking a look.

    Are you referring to the <title> tag on the page, and not the post title itself?

    Sounds like an SEO plugin/theme option of some kind to me. It looks like the default theme also does this, which is why you would see it with all plugins disabled.

    Thread Starter voltaicass

    (@voltaicass)

    It’s bizarre though because I changed the theme to the default and also disabled all plug-ins to no avail. Any idea what could have triggered this change or how I can get it back?

    Basically what I’m referring to is what the post’s title shows up as when I open it in a web browser. For example, I can look at the top of my browser and see that this thread in the forum is “WordPress>Support ? Posts being titled strangely, adding blog name.” If this was my website, I would want it to only say what ever is specific to this page and not list the whole website’s name.

    I dunno, I can tell it wasn’t there before because of a stat plug in that shows me popular pages. Just strange.

    It’s bizarre though because I changed the theme to the default and also disabled all plug-ins to no avail. Any idea what could have triggered this change or how I can get it back?

    The default theme does this by default. `<title><?php wp_title(‘«’, true, ‘right’); ?> <?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></title>’ in header.php – where wp_title is the template tag to get the post title, ‘&laquo’ is the separator (?), ‘true’ echos the title and ‘right’ is the position of the separator. bloginfo(‘name’) is the Blog Title as set in Settings->General. Either the theme you are using has a similar line in header.php or you are using a plugin to generate this.

    If you want to only show the post title for the <title> tag, simply remove the <?php bloginfo('name'); ?> from the <title> tag in header.php. If the theme doesn’t have this, then you need to find which ever plugin (SEO?) that is doing this and change the option.

    Thread Starter voltaicass

    (@voltaicass)

    It’s something that was added to the latest theme. My apologies for not understanding what you were saying. I’ve marked this as resolved and appreciate your help.

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