Hyphen at Start of Title

  • Hi,
    I’m reasonably new to WordPress. I’ve set up a website with a few friends for a business called TradesmanNow. We’ve had a lot of people involved in setting the website up and now I’m backtracking to try and make changes. The titles of deeper pages currently have a hyphen ” – ” at the start of the title. eg. the electricians page title currently says ” – Electricians in Sydney, Melbourne etc.”. I want to remove that hyphen.

    I use a plugin called ‘Add Meta Tags’ to set the titles up and the title field in that plugin for that page currently says “Electricians in Sydney, Melbourne etc.” (no hyphen). The hyphen was also there prior to me installing the plugin so I know it has nothing to with the plugin. I’m thinking maybe it’s linked to the theme.

    I deleted the site title which was “TradesmanNow” because previously the electricians page title said “TradesmanNow – Electricians in Sydney, Melbourne etc.” This removed the TradesmanNow part at the start but the hyphen remained.

    Any ideas?

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  • Hello,

    can you please provide a link to your website, so we can atleast have some insight on what really happened?

    Thank you.

    Thread Starter 3DSDan

    (@3dsdan)

    There are 2 links in the post

    Oh men sorry i didn’t saw those :)) apologies.. anyways, i’ll take a look at it.

    Thread Starter 3DSDan

    (@3dsdan)

    No problems. I hope you can find the solution

    What theme are you using?

    Does changing the theme to twentyfifteen for example, solves your problem.? please try.

    Thread Starter 3DSDan

    (@3dsdan)

    We’re currently using the Avada theme. It appears that switching themes in the live preview does remove the hyphen. So that confirms the theme is somehow causing the problem.

    I need to keep using the Avada theme though. Any ideas on how to remove it without switching themes?

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    You need to talk to your theme’s vendors/ authors for support with their theme.

    Thread Starter 3DSDan

    (@3dsdan)

    Thanks guys. Will do

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