Problem with title tags

Hi beautywithbrain,

This isn’t an issue with All in One SEO Pack; I’d suggest testing against a different theme, or setting up a redirect in your .htaccess or web server configuration for when your site is crawled with unwanted url query parameters.

Hi Peter,

thanks for your reply. I posted it here because on another forum someone mentioned the issue could be related to this plugin. Even if it isn’t, do you have any idea what could be causing the problem? I will try your suggestions, though, thanks.

Hi beautywithbrain,

These are two features built into WordPress, and ultimately your theme decides how to handle them, as well. The first is home page pagination, that’s the /page/400/ part. The second is specifying a page by querying by page id, that’s the ?page=10 part. So /page/400/ means go to page 400 of older results from your archive page, whereas ?page=10 means go to the page with page id 10 – two completely different things. It makes no sense to do them both at once, so one way to take care of this is to redirect queries like /page/400/?page=10 to /?page=10 (or alternatively, to keep it at /page/400/ and strip off the query string). Another approach would be to return a 404 page not found error. Your theme decides how it handles things like pagination and requests for pages, and WordPress provides the infrastructure for it to do that.

Hi Peter,

thanks a lot for your clear explanation. It helps a lot!

Hi Peter,

unfortunately, I still have this issues with duplicate title tags. After trying several things to fix it without success this past month, my web designer finally deactivated All in One SEO Pack (hadn’t done that before because we thought it was a problem with the theme rather than the plugin, like you said) and, when she checked the page source, instead of saying your https://beautifulwithbrains.com/page/400/ it just says https://beautifulwithbrains.com/ like it should. So, it’s definitely the plugin that’s causing the problem.

She recommend to stop using the plugin, but I really like it. It’s easy to use even for non-techy people like me. Do you have any idea on how to fix this issue so I don’t have to switch to something else?

Many thanks in advance.

Hi beautywithbrain,

You can try disabling Canonical URLs in All in One SEO Pack and see if that helps you as well. Some people do have multiple pages containing older posts linked from their Home / Blog page – if you don’t, then you might want to see about redirecting or disabling those additional pages on your site as we previously discussed.

Hi Peter,

thank you so much for your prompt reply. I will try disabling Canonical urls and see if that works. If it doesn’t, how can I do the redirection?

You could try using the Redirection plugin for this, or consult with your web designer about how to do it using, say, wp_redirect() in your theme templates or functions.php file.