Page Title Issue with the new version

Also, can you provide the breadcrumb functionality in the theme in your next release? WordPress SEO Plugin’s built in breadcrumbs would also work.

Hi Keshav. I just installed the Yoast SEO plugin on a test site running Hueman v1.5.4, left all the default settings (in which Force Rewrite Titles is disabled) and I’m not seeing any problems with page headings. Can you post a link to your site?

Hi bdbrown,

As I said before, this issue is with the latest version of the theme 2.2.2. I was also running on version 1.5.5 before and didn’t have any page title issues. As soon as I updated the theme to the latest version (2.2.2), page titles are missing if Force Rewrite option is not selected in WordPress SEO plugin.

The website is https://www.environmentabout.com

Maybe we’re talking about two different things. The theme page title is located in the bar at the top of the content area, between the “Follow” and “More” sidebar headings. On the site you linked it’s displaying in the default theme format. Do you have the Yoast option enabled or disabled? Also, I just loaded Yoast with the default configuration on a clean install of Hueman v2.2.2; the page titles display normally.

Sorry for the confusion. I was talking about title meta tag <title></title> that is displayed in the browser.

With version 2.2.2, I need to force rewrite titles to show them in the head section of the HTML. Otherwise, there are no meta title and description tags. I am using a business directory plugin which require Force Rewrite Titles to be off to work. But if I turn Force Rewrite Off, all my page and blog titles are lost.

Currently I have force rewrite settings on in the plugin. Therefore the directory pages are missing title and description tags. See here https://www.environmentabout.com/green-directory

The issue does not occur if I switch to any other theme. So I believe there is something wrong with the latest version specific to title tags.

I hope this clears the situation now.

I’m confused. You said:

I need to force rewrite titles to show them in the head section of the HTML. Otherwise, there are no meta title and description tags.

Then you said:

Currently I have force rewrite settings on in the plugin. Therefore the directory pages are missing title and description tags.

In any case, the theme does set the <title> tag, which is also displayed in the browser tab, in the head section. With the Yoast plugin installed, the theme page title and site title are still correctly displayed in the browser tab, using the selected “Title Separator”, with the “force rewrite” option disabled. If you want other meta tags in the head section you’ll have to set them manually or use a plugin such as Yoast. If Yoast conflicts with another plugin that’s a different issue.

I think there’s still confusion. So I will try to explain it one more time.

I was using Hueman theme version 1.5.5 before updating it to the latest version 2.2.2. As soon as I updated the theme, all my pages were missing meta title and description tags. I didn’t change any setting in the Yoast SEO plugin. The Force Rewrite option was unchecked before I updated the theme. And everything was working as intended before I updated the theme.

After the theme upgrade to 2.2.2, I need to select Force Rewrite Titles option in the Yoast SEO plugin to bring back the missing meta tags.

Looks like the issue is with wordpress version 4.0.1.

I updated my wordpress installation to version 4.1.2 and the issue is fixed.

Glad to hear you got it fixed. If you don’t need any further assistance with this topic please mark it as Resolved. Thanks.

A few more concerns though.

Shouldn’t there be an update notification for the newer version of the theme in the wordpress admin?

The pages don’t have any <h1> tag! The page titles are wrapped in <h2> tag which is a huge SEO issue. The blog posts though have the titles with proper <h1> tags. See example page here https://demo.alxmedia.se/hueman/demo/shortcodes/

This would create SEO issues with websites like mine with several pages.

There isn’t a notification for updates from the theme website like there is on wp.org. You need to check periodically for updates.
The page title is set in file /inc/page-title.php. If you want to change the title container you could copy that file to a child theme and make the desired modifications.