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Yoast or theme adding site title?
1 reply · Started by Anonymous on June 12, 2016
Hi Tom,
I have the yoast seo plugin installed and for some reason the site title is added even when I tell it not to. The weird thing is it doesn't always do this https://i.imgur.com/q4d3bcT.png but most of the time they look like this https://i.imgur.com/ScoQw4d.png.
Google tells me that Yoast blames the theme but I have evidence that it has worked with GP before. Yoast support are much less responsive than GP so I thought I'd ask here before reporting the issue to Yoast.
Hi Mike,
GP doesn't do anything at all when it comes to the title - we don't even have a <title> tag in the header file as it's against the rules on WordPress.org now.
GP simple declares support for the title tag like this: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/10/29/title-tags-in-4-1/
This gives WordPress full control over the tag, which plugins like Yoast can then filter and change.