Can’t change website’s title

  • Hey guys!

    I hope this is the correct forum to place my question.

    I’m setting up a blog using the theme “flat”.
    Today I wanted to change the name that’s displayed in the browser’s tab from the url to an actual name. But for some reason nothing works.

    I tried placing <title> my websites name </title> at the very top of my header.php document. I tried using the option via settings>general of WP. I tried different forms of the <title> command that I copied from various forum threads I found online. I tried putting a command that involved…filters? into the functions.php.

    Nothings works and I have no clue why. I feel like the template is maybe messing with the manually inserted code or something?

    Pleaaase help me.

    (English is not my native language. I can totally understand everything written but my written English is not perfect)

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  • WordPress provides the place to change the site title, but the theme outputs it (old themes) or tells WordPress to handle it (newer themes).
    Whatever you type into the Settings > General site title field should show in all the right places. Don’t put <title> tags though, because the site title is used in multiple places.
    If that’s not what you are experiencing, you should ask at your theme’s support forum. Or perhaps a plugin (for example SEO) could be affecting the title.

    Thread Starter wintergruen

    (@wintergruen)

    Hey!

    I guess I’ll try asking people at the theme’s support forum because I’m expierencing a different problem. SEO didn’t fix it, too. Unfortunately.

    Thank you though! ??

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