site name / title being automatically added to end of page title?

@ngoldsa We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing this issue on your site.

Can you please confirm you are using the most recent version of Yoast SEO, version 15.7? You can learn more about updating here: https://yoast.com/help/how-can-i-update-my-free-plugin/

Also, can you confirm you are using WordPress 5.6? You can check by clicking on the W in the top left and selecting About. If you need to update, please check with your host provider. Please know that if you are using an older version of WordPress Core you may experience unexpected behavior with Yoast. This guide explains more: https://yoast.com/why-we-dont-support-old-wordpress-versions/

If you update to the most current version of WordPress and Yoast SEO, does this resolve the issue?

If after ensuring that both WordPress, Yoast SEO, and your other plugins and themes are up to date the issue is still occurring, we’d next recommend performing a conflicting check to see whether another plugin or theme is interfering with the Yoast SEO Plugin. This will help us narrow down the exact cause and determine what the next steps are while saving you time.

The fastest way to do this is to?deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme?like?Twenty Nineteen.?Test this on your development or staging site, if you have one. If not, we recommend using the?Health Check & Troubleshooting?plugin. This plugin allows you to run a conflict check?without affecting normal visitors to your site.

If you’re unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we’d like to point you to a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process:?How to check for plugin conflicts.

Thank you for your reply.

I can confirm that both yoast SEO plugin and my Worpress Theme are the latest versions..

Yoast SEO v 15.7
Worpress 2011 v 5.6.1

I’ve run the health check, deleted all unused themes, deleted all inactive plugins, Updated all other plugins but still no joy ??

<title>
Which is the Best Decking Oil to Protect and Nourish Decking?Home Gardener</title>

Just can’t seem to find a way to stop the the site name being added to the end of the title tag.

Is there anything else I should do or try?

It looks like you are running the 2011 theme on your website. The relevant theme doesn’t come with the add_theme_support( 'title-tag' ); and as such, you’re currently experiencing the issue.

To fix the issue, you’ll need to enable the Force rewrite titles option that you’ll find on SEO → Search Appearance → General (tab).

Let us know whether enabling the relevant option resolves the issue for you.

@ngoldsa When performing a conflict check, you don’t just want to remove unused plugins or themes. You want to check whether another plugin or theme is inserting the extra information into the title by systematically deactivating/reactivating plugins and then reviewing the source code. Can you please confirm whether you’ve tested that?

Hey Guys,

Thank you for the suggestions.

So I disabled all plugins. The first one I re-enabled was Yoast SEO and as soon as I did, the User specified title returned with the added site title at the end again so I’m assuming that this issue is related to Yoast SEO somewhere.

I hadn’t noticed this on earlier versions so perhaps something to do with later versions?

Any suggestions?

Many thanks.

Nick.

@ngoldsa

We inspected the page source of your website https://home-gardener.co.uk/decking/decking-oil/ and do notice that there are duplicate <title> tags outputted on the source code of your homepage and all other pages

<title>Which is the Best Decking Oil to Protect and Nourish Decking?Home Gardener</title>

AND
<title>Which is the Best Decking Oil to Protect and Nourish Decking?</title>

Duplicate titles could be caused by your active theme or a third-party plugin on your site. It could be that your theme implements its own SEO title and meta and overrides the one in the Yoast SEO plugin. Your theme header includes a title tag or doesn’t declare support for title-tag

You can learn more about it here — https://yoast.com/help/my-seo-title-isnt-displayed-as-i-have-entered-it/#source-code

Can you please provide us screenshots of the Yoast SEO title setting of your page or post? Take the screenshot of SEO > Search Appearance > Content Types > Posts/ Page. Also, take the screenshot of the Yoast SEO metabox of individual post edit page.

Sorry, not sure how to paste a screenshot in here.

So in Yoast, SEO, Search Appearance. Content Types, I have the following settings under the ‘Pages’ heading…

Show Pages in search results? YES
Show SEO settings for Pages? SHOW
SEO title: Predefined entries for TITLE – PAGE – SEPARATOR
Meta description: This is blank

It’s interesting that you pointed out the 2 titles as when I run the site through SEO tools, they also tell me that each page has 2 x H1 and i can’t see where or how to resolve that issue either.

Very frustrating.

Hi @ngoldsa,

We can understand that narrowing down what is causing the duplicate titles can be frustrating, but it can be solved.

From the information you’ve provided and from what we’ve checked, we can confirm that Yoast SEO is outputting the correct title along with the other metadata that it adds to your page. See this screenshot.

This means that the problem with titles in the report isn’t caused by Yoast SEO and it may be fixed if you edit your theme. My colleagues have mentioned that you might need to add code to your theme to have it support the Yoast SEO title. Can you confirm that you’ve taken the steps to see if it solves the problem?

If you’re not comfortable with editing your theme files or creating a child theme, a good next step would be to contact a web developer or checking out freelance development sites like?Codeable for more guidance.

Thank you so much for your help and support.

I’m happy to edit the theme header to resolve the duplicate h1 and title tags but not sure what needs changing, removing, adding.

If someone can help me with this aspect and what to do, I’ll go ahead and make the changes myself ??

Thank you again. Much appreciated ??

We are afraid to say that we are unable to confirm what exactly you’ll need to change in the theme core files as this is something that depends on the theme. So, it’s very hard to say exactly what you’ll need to change. In this case, the theme support would be the best place for you to assist on this.

We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.