Custom title issue

Seems like a bug. Thanks for reporting it.

In the upcoming weekend I’ll try to reproduce it using the settings you provided and resolve any issues.

I’m also using your plugin (thanks for it! it’s really great) and was having the same problem. I just fixed it here and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the plugin.

In my case, I am using a custom theme based on blankslate. In that theme’s horrifically, atrociously, abhorrently formatted functions.php there was this function:

add_filter('wp_title', 'blankslate_filter_wp_title');
function blankslate_filter_wp_title($title)
{
return $title . esc_attr(get_bloginfo('name'));
}

I just deleted that, and that solved it. So I would suggest searching your theme files for “wp_title”, and see if there’s a filter like this. If so, delete it, and that should do it.

@mfan – Haha, it’s called BlankSlate for a reason. There’s nothing wrong with the formatting, because it doesn’t have any. It’s semi-minified (as apposed to fully minified where all lines of code would be on just one line).

The code is like this purposefully and you’ll also see the suppression of programmer comments as well. It’s truly the ultimate blank slate boilerplate. You won’t find anything easier out there that allows you to quickly white label and truly build your own theme.

Open all files in TextWrangler (Mac) or Notepad++ (Win) and do a find and replace in all files for the blankslate prefix to replace with your own. Then automate the formatting however you like and adjust to your own preferences.

We’re not going to impose that onto you. The point of theme is for people to jumpstart their own theme as close to scratch as possible.

Thanks and Enjoy

Thank you all for you feedback.

Unfortunately, due to several other obligations, it is impossible to investigate whether this is a bug or not at this time. I’ll do some thorough research about what might interfere with the title generation/formatting and include any potential fixes in the upcoming 2.3.0 release.

@mfan: Thanks for pointing that out.

I have the exact same problem as panchenko. One thing I noticed is that only some of my posts have the custom title merged to my blog name. Most of the posts have the correct separator | in between.

Hi
As a quick fix to this, I changed the following line of code:

$custom_title = str_replace(‘%title%’, $title, $custom_title);
to
$custom_title = str_replace(‘%title%’, $title, $custom_title).’ | ‘;

Which can be found in add-meta-tags.php on line 1778

But please bear in mind that any future updates will overwrite this

Changed the priority of the ‘amt_custom_title_tag’ filter and now it seems to work as expected.

Please try setting:

add_filter('wp_title', 'amt_custom_title_tag', 1000);

It will be fixed in v2.3.0.

According to my tests, setting the priority of the filter high enough (1000) resolves the issue with the unwanted blog name in the custom title.

However, if ‘%title%’ is used within the custom title, then the blog name is still appended. The blog name is actually appended to the normal post/page title to which ‘%title%’ is expanded. I guess this is a problem of low importance for now. Requires further manipulation of the title, which I’ll try to do in another plugin release.

I’m marking this thread as resolved.

I have (had) the same problem as posted by a.s.panchenko in the first post of this thread with wordpress 3.8.1 and the twenty eleven theme version 1.7.
Even Version 2.4.3 of your plugin didn’t fix the issue for me but following the advice from Svelte Design did:

As a quick fix to this, I changed the following line of code:

$custom_title = str_replace(‘%title%’, $title, $custom_title);
to
$custom_title = str_replace(‘%title%’, $title, $custom_title).’ | ‘;

Which can be found in add-meta-tags.php on line 1778

Would be great if you could add this fix to your next update.

Thanks a lot

Thomas

PS: Great plugin! Keep up the good work ??