Character Count for page title appears incorrect

  • Resolved lospeso

    (@lospeso)


    4 years, 1 month ago

    According to your documentation, for the SEO Title field box, in any specific page or post editor screen, it says the following:

    All in One SEO Pack will automatically generate the Title Tag for you using the Post/Page Title. You can see the auto-generated title in this field when it is empty.

    For this Title field box, if left empty, the plugin shows the character count of the page/post title.

    For this field box, if any text is written into this box, the character count does not start from zero, it starts at 30.

    Here are the problems
    1. The default counting of the title character count is incorrect. It always shows as past 60 characters, yet the title is actually less than 60.

    2. Inserting any text into the Title field box fails to start at zero, as explained above.

    Questions
    1. Why is the default character count of the page/post title always incorrect?

    2. Why does inserting any characters into the SEO Title field box not start at zero to provide a correct count?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Support Steve M

    (@wpsmort)

    @lospeso Please see our FAQ on this – https://semperplugins.com/documentation/why-does-the-character-counter-for-seo-titles-show-a-different-count/

    Thread Starter lospeso

    (@lospeso)

    Fast reply, thank-you ??

    Reading the link your provided explains it, after working with the definition on my site.

    I tested it and the count shows as off by 1 character, so maybe a space or some other non-visible character exists that I cannot find. I can work with that.

    (For those who do not know where the “Site Title” is found in WordPress, it is found in the WordPress Admin area, “Settings > General” – Site Title.)

    Suggestion
    A lot of people will never come and ask about this, so I suggest the following:

    The plugin for this SEO Title field box provides a question mark icon for people to read a label popup that contains a link to this page:

    https://semperplugins.com/documentation/post-settings/#title

    My suggestion, for that documentation entry, it would be a very good thing to add a notation and link to the very page/link you provided above to inform users that they can find out more information on how the plugin counts characters for the SEO title field box.

    It is the cross referencing that really helps the documentation.

    Plugin Support Steve M

    (@wpsmort)

    Thanks for the suggestion. We’re about to release changes to this functionality that will change the way this all works.

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