[Resolved] Issue with Title tag of Author archive

[Bradley Wells]

There seems to be an issue on author archive pages when using GeneratePress with The SEO Framework plugin. The <title> tag (as seen in the browser’s tab, etc) shows html code instead of the author and site title. In my case, the title shows up as <img alt='' src='...' /> (see image below) instead of just showing author’s display name. With the plugin disabled, the title tag shows up as expected.

I opened a GitHub issue with the plugin developer, as I assumed it was on their end, but they suggest it is a bug with GP using an echo somewhere instead of a return. (I’ve been there!) Either way, is there some place I should look to put a temporary Band-Aid on the issue?

Here is an example page with the issue. Screenshot below

Edit: TSF developer seems to have identified it as a bug in his plugin,. As I originally suspected, it’s not on your end, after all. (I understand you are relying on WP to generate titles). Keep up the great work

[Bradley Wells]

In case anybody else runs into this issue, this snippet by The SEO Framework developer should fix it. A more robust patch should be in place in release 3.1.0.

add_filter( 'the_seo_framework_the_archive_title', function( $title, $term ) {

	if ( is_author() ) {
		$title = the_seo_framework()->use_archive_prefix( $term )
		       ? sprintf( __( 'Author: %s' ), get_the_author() )
		       : get_the_author();
	}

	return $title;
}, 10, 2 );

[Tom]

Glad they figured out the issue 🙂

[Author]

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