[Plugin: WordPress SEO by Yoast] Site Title being appended to Site Description

I am having this same issue, and it’s driving me crazy. I like everything about this plugin.. but this flaw is really a killer. All my links in Google too are all appending the post title after the site name and running them together. It looks sloppy! Please help us fix this?

Also, I’m a little frustrated that Joost chooses to point people to these support forums, but seems not to read them often or provide the support needed. Looking at his contact page, he says any attempt to get help through that contact page will result in an immediate deletion of that request. So how are we to get help if this is the only medium to contact him, and he doesn’t frequent it?

Try making sure “Force rewrite titles” is ticked in the backend under “Titles & Metas”

If that doesn’t work go into themes header.php and remove the title tag that is there:
<title><?php [...] ?></title>

Brilliant….thanks for the help DavieJ! That did the trick!

Changing the header.php caused an

HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfill the request.

When accessing my blog. So that did not work for me.

I’m certain that one of my plugins had me change to title to:
<title><?php wp_title(”); ?></title>

Yet, I don’t know which one. How can I have my cake and eat it too? That is to say, can I keep both?

This is absolutely maddening. I use this for my Title information:

<title>
<?php
	if ( is_home() )
	{
		echo "Delebre's Blog";
	}
	else
	{
		wp_title('');
	}
?>
</title>

Checking/Unchecking ‘Force rewrite titles’ has no effect on my posts. They come up as Delebre’s Blog – MyBlogTitleOfPostOnSite

So It’s adding – My Blog and then Adding the Title of the post to it and running them together. Even though I have the header changed, it still reverts to an old naming convention. I don’t see where I can even change this in the SEO settings.