Page Title Not Appearing in Tab

  • Hello,

    I can’t see the SEO title in the tab of any page of the website I’m working on, it just has the full URL with https:// and everything.

    I went through and disabled/enabled all plugins and found that when Gravity Forms was disabled, the page titles appeared again, but I don’t see how it would be conflicting as it’s only a form plugin and it’s been on the site for a long time without this issue. I can’t remember when the issue started but it has been a couple months.

    Please let me know if there is anything I can look into that could be conflicting with the titles besides this plugin. I don’t know if it is to blame.

    Thanks!

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  • Hi, @alchemidesign, it looks like the page title is being commented out:

    <!-- End Google Tag Manager —>

<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<title>Maryland Commercial Asphalt, Concrete, and Construction</title>

<!-- SEO Ultimate (https://www.seodesignsolutions.com/wordpress-seo/) -->

    The <!-- End Google Tag Manager —> isn’t properly ending the comment, so the title is being hidden.

    I think it should be <!-- End Google Tag Manager --> instead, but I could be wrong.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Ian Sackofwits. Reason: Clarification
    Thread Starter alchemidesign

    (@alchemidesign)

    Hi @plantprogrammer,

    How can I fix that comment ending? As far as I know, those items are generated automatically as we don’t often write in our own code, and when we do it is usually custom CSS.

    Hi, @alchemidesign.

    Do you know what plugin is currently being used for the Google tags?

    I can see about looking at particular plugin’s code after knowing the plugin’s name.

    Thread Starter alchemidesign

    (@alchemidesign)

    Hi @plantprogrammer,

    I’m honestly not sure what plugin is being used for the Google tags.

    If that would be an SEO plugin, we have two active, All in One SEO and SEO Ultimate. We did not build this site, it was previously run by another agency, and both plugins were active when we received the site. I tried deactivating each of those as well to see if they were conflicting with each other in this issue but that made no difference.

    Please let me know if there is a different kind of plugin that would manage Google tags.

    Thanks!

    Hi @alchemidesign , thanks for the clarification.

    I’m not sure if this helps:
    https://chrisberkley.com/blog/gravity-forms-event-tracking-google-tag-manager/

    (since you mentioned gravity forms seemed to be linked to the issue)

    (I’m guessing that none of these were on the site? https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search/google+tag/)

    Another possibility is someone has manually inserted code with Google tags: https://developers.google.com/tag-manager/quickstart

    Hi, @alchemidesign , I’ve thought more about what you could do.

    One possible thing you could do is, if you install WPTerm, for diagnosis purposes, to grep search for the comment to see if where in WordPress is storing that particular string (I’m guessing the comment is stored as a string somewhere).

    grep -R "<!-- End Google Tag Manager —>" or some variation like that might help.

    This will search recursively for that string in WordPress file directories.

    Please note before executing this action, though, is to make sure your syntax is correct as you don’t want to accidentally do something to the back-end! Make sure to have a backup just in case!

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