Page Titles and Meta Descriptions not updating

  • Resolved mccawphoto

    (@mccawphoto)


    2 years, 10 months ago

    When I type in new custom page titles and meta descriptions for a page on my site they don’t update in the source code. I’ve created a staging site that is a copy of this site to do some troubleshooting. So far I’ve deactivated all plugins except Yoast SEO and also changed the theme to the WordPress default 2021 theme.

    Even after doing this the page titles and meta descriptions are not updating.

    What in the world is causing this issue?

    I even tried deactivating and deleting Yoast SEO and reinstalling it but nothing is working.

    I’m at a loss as to what to try next. When I go to a brand new site for another client, install Yoast SEO and change a page title it immediately updates in the page source code.

    Please help me fix this.

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  • Plugin Support Michael Ti?a

    (@mikes41720)

    Hi @mccawphoto

    You’ve mentioned that the SEO title and meta descriptions you’ve entered in the Yoast SEO plugin aren’t outputting in the source code.

    When we view the homepage of the site you’ve referenced, it seems to be showing 2 title tags, and 0 meta description tags. You’ve mentioned that you’ve already tried this with a default WP theme and only the Yoast SEO plugin activated and that still hasn’t fixed the issue.

    Can you please try resetting our indexables in the database tables by following the steps below?
    1. Install & activate the?Yoast Test Helper plugin
    2. Go to Tools > Yoast Test
    3. Locate the Yoast SEO section and click on the ‘Reset indexables tables & migrations’, ‘Reset Prominent words calculation’, and ‘Reset Internal link counter’ buttons. After each click, the page will reload to confirm that each reset was successful. Note: Resetting the optimization doesn’t undo any of the hard work you’ve put into the plugin as the SEO data is also stored in WordPress’ default tables. It’ll just reset the custom Yoast tables that contain the combined data pulled from those default tables.
    4. Go to SEO > Tools, and under SEO data, click the “Start SEO data optimization” button to allow Yoast to rescan your?content.

    Could you check, once you’ve reset and re-run the SEO data optimization process, if the title and meta description tags output accordingly?

    Thread Starter mccawphoto

    (@mccawphoto)

    Hi @mikes41720

    Thank you so much for showing me this. It fixed all but one issue. The page title is now updating and now I have a meta description tag showing up!

    The only remaining issue is that there are 2 title tags.

    I just went into my header.php file and removed <title><?php wp_title(”); ?></title> and now I only have 1 title tag.

    Could you review and make sure all is correct now?

    Also, can you educate me on why I needed to remove <title><?php wp_title(”); ?></title>. It seems somewhere in your documentation I was told to add it. I’d like to be 100% sure how it needs to be done.

    Thanks!

    Melinda

    Plugin Support Suwash

    (@suascat_wp)

    @mccawphoto

    wp_title() is intended for use in the <title> tag in the <head> for setting the browser tab/document title. However, since WordPress 4.1 this has been superseded (but not officially deprecated, yet) by add_theme_support( ‘title-tag’ ), so these days wp_title() really shouldn’t be used.

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.

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