How to fix double title seperator

Update on above question

I changed the line

<title><?php wp_title(‘ ‘); ?> <?php if(wp_title(‘ ‘, false)) { echo ‘ : ‘; } ?><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></title>

To the following:

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

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 ) && ! is_404() )
echo esc_html( ‘ | ‘ . sprintf( __( ‘Page %s’, ‘twentyeleven’ ), max( $paged, $page ) ) );

?></title>

Is this OK?

Hi @skvwp,

You should replace all from <title> to </title> with only this:

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

For an even better solution, look at this page:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Title_Tag

That page suggests removing all of the title output in header.php, and adding this to functions.php instead (which is also much faster and more reliable):

add_theme_support( 'title-tag' );

I hope this helps!

Great! For the moment, the copy paste code from tweetyeleven theme is working fine. I am a beginner and dont want to mess up with function.php

Yes, in the copy paste code below, if you could please suggest me the meaning of this string, I shall be grateful. What shall I do with ‘Page %s’, ‘twentyeleven’. I am not using twentyeleven theme, just copied the code from there.

// Add a page number if necessary:
if ( ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 ) && ! is_404() )
echo esc_html( ‘ | ‘ . sprintf( __( ‘Page %s’, ‘twentyeleven’ ), max( $paged, $page ) ) );

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

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 ) && ! is_404() )
echo esc_html( ‘ | ‘ . sprintf( __( ‘Page %s’, ‘twentyeleven’ ), max( $paged, $page ) ) );

?></title>

Hi @skvwp,

I strongly advise against using a theme from 2011 (i.e. Twenty[20] Eleven[11]) as a boilerplate for your code. It’s built on outdated standards, which are even considered blatantly wrong by today’s.

Stick with the code I provided you, and you’re all set! Here it is, once more:

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

About sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'twentyeleven' ), max( $paged, $page ) );:
It’s used for pagination, where %s gives the current page number built from the max() function call.
$paged and $page are used in archives and singular paginated pages, respectively. They return the page number.

All this and much more is done within The SEO Framework and WordPress itself.
Please, don’t use Twenty Eleven’s code, use Twenty Seventeen! ??

P.S. You can use the code button above in the comment field (or backticks) if you wish to insert code; these forums convert the code into broken pieces of software otherwise.

OK.
I did the following

1. Deleted the <title></title> tag completely from the header.php i.e the following line

<title><?php wp_title(' '); ?> <?php if(wp_title(' ', false)) { echo ' : '; } ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>

2. Added the following line in the function.php of the theme (above the ‘init’ function (I.E. ABOVE THE LINE – add_action( 'init', 'theme_widgets_init' );

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'theme_slug_setup' );

function theme_slug_setup() {

	add_theme_support( 'title-tag' );
}

https://vigyaan.org/article/388/

THINGS SEEMS TO BE WORKING FINE NOW. ALL SEEMS OK. MAY I KINDLY REQUEST YOU TO PLEASE COMMENT IF THE ABOVE WHAT I DID WAS OK?? I USED JUST COMMON SENSE, AND I HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT CODES!!! I AM SO SORRY TO BOTHER YOU.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by skvwp.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by skvwp.

Hi @skvwp,

No worries ??

1. Good! It was the right thing to do.
2. Also good! See below if you want to perfect.

What you have now is for external injection (like from a plugin):

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'theme_slug_setup' );
function theme_slug_setup() {
	add_theme_support( 'title-tag' );
}

It can be simplified to just this, but only if it’s in your theme’s functions.php file:

add_theme_support( 'title-tag' );

I’m marking this topic as resolved, as you’ve basically solved it now already.

Cheers ??