Jason Funk

Hi grios,

The problem is most likely due to how the theme accesses the title. The plugin filters the “the_title” action. If the theme accesses the post directly instead of using the_title(), then the experimental title won’t be used. Do you happen to know if that is the case?

Hello!

I’m sorry that the plugin is causing problems! Do you have the javascript option set? In the Title Exp Settings page under Settings, is “Use JavaScript to set titles” checked or not? If so, the issue might be that, when using javascript, the_titles() will return a span tag that will be replaced – having the title in an attribute would break this.

However, based on what you’ve said… I don’t think that this is the case. I think, rather, the plugin is encountering an error and dying. Do you have access to your server logs that might give an indication about it?

That’s right, the plugin is only able to alter the titles on your own blog site. It cannot test the titles when they are displayed on social media or search engines.

Thanks. Are you having compatibility issues with the plugins or are you just curious?

My plugin is pretty simple. Whenever someone asks for the post’s title, the plugin will give it one based on it’s algorithm. Search engines will index whichever title they are shown. Until you have a reason to think otherwise, I would just assume that there won’t be any problems. ??

I don’t know how those plugins work, so I can’t say for sure. But unless they do something pretty unusual, then it should work.

Hello –

Sorry that I didn’t reply sooner. Someone else had this problem and it turned out that their database was set to the wrong character set.

This has been resolved in the latest update.

I stumbled across this post because I had the same problem. For the sake of the future, I discovered that the problem was with my theme including a captcha and not with the plugins.