Double TITLE Tags because of yoast seo

Hi @cwrksr

Thanks for using Yoast SEO plugin and also creating the topic.

It seems like your theme or another plugin is outputting an additional <title> tag on the source code. Often, we see problems occur in combination with another plugin or theme. The fastest way to rule out any conflict is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like Twenty Twenty-Two.

Please test this on your development or staging site if you have one. If not, we recommend using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This plugin has a troubleshooting mode, which does not affect 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.

If it’s outputted by the theme, we recommend you to check the theme header files to find out whether any mention about the <title> tag is there or not.

If you want to remove the Yoast SEO title from the source code, then you can use the filter mentioned over here.

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We all know what the problem is, your plugin dont check for title (or the theme uses some unusual way what do i know) and still add your own title.

We all know that the theme has that title in it.

What i know is if i disable your pluign one of the <title> gets removed.

I cant/wont change the theme or plugin because i would have to change it after each update.

Since its a known issue you still dont have a button to press to stop it from outputting an extra title tag? Why? How many support tickets you get a year for that sort of question?

Would be a nice feature for your yoast seo toolkit thingy, disable specific things of your main plugin.

I mean srsly, the title has the SAME value, so it would be the simplest u just disable YOUR title, right?

Then it would be working with every theme?

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Hi @cwrksr

We understand you would like to disable the title that is being output by Yoast SEO. As we mentioned above, you can disable the title using the filter:

add_filter( 'wpseo_title', '__return_false' );

Typically code snippets are added to your theme’s functions.php file. If you’re unfamiliar with using code snippets, we’d like to refer you to the WordPress documentation on how to use a filter.

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About feature request:

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• This reply was modified 9 months ago by Mushrit Shabnam.

I’ll do that. But it’s beyond me why you don’t just add this yourself as a feature. It would help solve customer problems and make your plugin more compatible with other themes and plugins. Isn’t that what you want?