The separator I need is missing!

Same. I am so annoyed because now a bunch of my websites that were using the pipe as the separator and they have all been automatically changed to using the default dash.

I am currently remedying this with this code snippet (placed in your theme’s functions.php file), as it puts the “|” back into the list of options to choose from courtesy of Yoast SEO’s documentation. It’s still annoying because I have a bunch of websites that use this and now I have to manually update all of them.

/**
 * Return Pipe to Yoast SEO Title Separators
 * 
 * Adds the Pipe (|) character to the List of title separators in 
 * Yoast SEO that was removed in version 17.1. 
 * 
 * @param array $separator_options Yoast's list of separators
 * @return array Modified list of separators
 */
function tw_wpseo_separator_options( $separator_options ) {
    $custom_options = array('|');	
    if( is_array($separator_options) ) { $separator_options = array_merge( $separator_options, $custom_options ); }
    else { $separator_options = $custom_options; }
    return $separator_options;
}
add_filter( 'wpseo_separator_options', 'tw_wpseo_separator_options', 10, 1 );

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Tessa Watkins.

Hi @jackson1979 and @tessachu,

Thanks for your comments.

We understand that you’d like to keep using the | as title separator. We’ve removed the | and ~ from the title separator settings in Yoast SEO v17.1 because Google seems to change these to — in the SERP titles actively. If you want, you can pick another separator.

Thanks!