[Plugin: WordPress SEO by Yoast] Duplicate title when Yoast SEO plugin is active

I’m getting
‘post title – blog name’
and I don’t need the ‘blog name’ part because that’s put in through my Thesis theme as
‘post title | blog name’ so I delete it each time manually.
Now, if it stopped there it would be OK, but I see in the search engines it’s also added the site name. Although I don’t see it in the Admin area, I’m now being indexed as
‘post title | blog name – site name’.
Not good. Can anyone please tell me how to get rid of the ‘site name’ part of it?

Same error here as well. It took me awhile to figure it out. I posted about it here. I really love the plugin but have had to disable it until this can get worked out.

Would love to hear when there’s a solution.

I had the same problem, it was that the theme was adding the site name and other stuff to the title. Your theme’s header.php must be as described in the titles section of the seo admin:

Be aware that for WordPress SEO to be able to modify your page titles, the title section of your header.php file should look like this:

<title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>
If you can't modify or don't know how to modify your template, check the box below. Be aware that changing your template will be faster.

I changed that in my custom theme (based on ToolBox) and it worked properly.

/peter

What’s confusing me about that is that my header.php presently looks like this:

<?php

function thesis_header_area() {
	thesis_hook_before_header();
	thesis_header();
	thesis_hook_after_header();
}

function thesis_header() {
	echo "\t<div id=\"header\">\n";
	thesis_hook_header();
	echo "\t</div>\n";
}

function thesis_default_header() {
	thesis_hook_before_title();
	thesis_title_and_tagline();
	thesis_hook_after_title();
}

Am I supposed to delete all that and put this instead?

<title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>

It seems to me something is going to go seriously wrong with that.

If you are using Thesis to manage your titles you need to remove the WordPress SEO by Yoast title action with the following code. Paste this into your custom_functions.php

remove_filter('wp_title', array($wpseo_front, 'title'), 10, 3);

I also think it’s a bug. The plugin does not seem to honor its own “Force rewrite titles” setting.

Above suggestion is a good workaround.

In the plugin code, the __constructor function of WPSEO_Frontend needs to be changed so that add_filter( 'wp_title' ... ) is only run when ‘forcerewritetitle’ is ON.

Installed 1.1.5. version on WordPress 3.3.1. but I am confuse with the title settings on my header.php. I notice repetitive titles in some pages, example:

Title is showing as:
<title> Marina District – Downtown San Diego Real Estate | Condos & Lofts – San Diego Real Estate </title>

Instead of showing:
<title> Marina District – Downtown San Diego Real Estate | Condos & Lofts</title>
which is what I have on ‘SEO Title’ under the page edit (‘Snippet Preview’ shows the same).

Do I need to change my title on my header.php to <title><?php wp_title(”); ?></title> when I currently have :

<title>
<?php if (function_exists(‘is_tag’) && is_tag()) {
single_tag_title(‘Tag Archive for “‘); echo ‘” – ‘;
} elseif (is_archive()) {
wp_title(”); echo ‘ Archive – ‘;
} elseif (is_search()) {
echo ‘Search for “‘.wp_specialchars($s).'” – ‘;
} elseif (!(is_404()) && (is_single()) || (is_page())) {
wp_title(”); echo ‘ – ‘;
} elseif (is_404()) {
echo ‘Not Found – ‘;
}
if (is_home()) {
bloginfo(‘name’); echo ‘ – ‘; bloginfo(‘description’);
} else {
bloginfo(‘name’);
} if ($paged > 1)
{ echo ‘ – page ‘. $paged;
} ?>
</title>

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

liliie, thanks for the remove_filter code. That did the trick. Joost, is this a big with the plugin? As others have mentioned, unchecking “force rewrite” for the title doesn’t fully stop messing with wp_title.

Hi spswm,

I’m not using the plugin anymore, so I don’t know if anything has changed. At the time it was a bug in the plugin.

I had the same problem, but then removed the %%sitename%% from the post title template and the pages template and now it’s fine.

I just wish he would take the time to write some decent documentation. What he does provide in the dashboard, his site and the tour is grossly lacking. Many times it’s simply a restatement of the label on an option. Other times (the majority) I can only assume that he believes that since he understands what the selection or option does, that everyone knows what he is intending.

probably you might find this in your header.php:
bloginfo( ‘name’ );
commenting it out should remove the trailing title.

i think this cant be called as a bug. i think the author has coded to generate wp_title, but some themes append bloginfo() to it, some dont. so…

for custom homepage title changes, you will have to edit the page title directly from editor.
another tip is to manually hardcode metadata into header. some other plugins like all-in-one-seo has a seperate settings panel for it but not this…

I’ve got the same problem with duplicate titles caused by this plugin. Uninstalling the plugin did the trick.

Documentation would be very helpful. Without instructions on how to use it, all the work creating the plugin is wasted.

The Perfect Solution is This
Please Replace this code with your in the Header.php Title.

Note Code has already <title> tags
you do not need to insert it in the <title></title> tags

Code Documentation.
if your yoast plugin is deactivate so it will comeback to your previous title settings(changes).

You Just need to set %%title%% | %%sitename%% in the Yoast Seo Post/Pages Titles.

<?php
	/*
	 * Print the <title> tag based on what is being viewed.
	 */
global $page, $paged;

// if Plugin Activate
	if ( ! function_exists('is_plugin_inactive')) {
    require_once( ABSPATH . '/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php' );
	}

	if ( !is_plugin_inactive('wordpress-seo/wp-seo.php') ) {

// if Force Rewrite is Active
		$options = get_wpseo_options();
		if ( isset( $options['forcerewritetitle'] ) && $options['forcerewritetitle'] ) {
		}else{ ?>
<title>
	<?php wp_title( '' );

	// Add the blog name.
	//bloginfo( 'name' );

	// Add the blog description for the home/front page.
	$site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
	if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
		echo " | $site_description";

	// Add a page number if necessary:
	if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
		echo ' | ' . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'twentyeleven' ), max( $paged, $page ) );	?>
</title>

<?php }
	}else{ ?>
<title>
<?php wp_title( '|', true, 'right' );

	// Add the blog name.
	bloginfo( 'name' );

	// Add the blog description for the home/front page.
	$site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
	if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
		echo " | $site_description";

	// Add a page number if necessary:
	if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
		echo ' | ' . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'twentyeleven' ), max( $paged, $page ) );
?>
</title>
<?php } ?>

Used wp_title and it fixed it for me. Thanks