Browser Tab Description

  • I will start by saying that I am totally new to all this so please bear with me. I have developed a Website using Theme: Twenty Twelve and have the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast. This has helped me focus specifically on page titles and meta descriptions. However, the page title appears as the heading to the browser tab whereas I would prefer it to show the Site Title as defined in General Settings & if possible to also show the site logo. Is this possible ?

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  • You actually don’t want the page title shown on the borwser window to be the site title on all of your pages. This will have a (probably slight) negative effect on your SEO. The page titles should be unique and descriptive to the page that they are on.

    Thread Starter Peter Wilson

    (@peter-wilson)

    From what I can see, the default heading on the browser tab is page title | site title. This is how I understand this line from the header.php file <title><?php wp_title( ‘|’, true, ‘right’ ); ?></title>. I did try reversing the code but didn’t quite get the syntax right. But I am new to all this and am happy to learn from others.

    If you’re using the Yoast SEO plugin I’d remove the extra parts in the wp_title() call. That way Yoast SEO will look after it and put in what you are after, and you can change it on a page-by-page basis as you need to.

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