SEO Title templates not working

Hi,

I’m using WordPress 4.9.8 and Enfold 4.5 and the free version of Yoast 9.0.3. All updated to their latest versions.

If I manually edit an SEO title or meta description on an individual page or post it works correctly and I can see the change. The issue I am having is that if I make any changes to the templates then these don’t show up.

I’m in SEO > Search Appearance > Archives > Author archives settings > SEO Title.

The settings are as follows:

Author archives: Enabled
Show author archives in search results? Yes
Show archives for authors without posts in search results? No

SEO Title
I have this set to the default:

%%name%%, Author at %%sitename%% %%page%% %%page%%

All that shows up in the on-page title is the author name.

<title>Hedley Phillips</title>

If I deactivate the Yoast plugin I see:

<title>Hedley Phillips – Page 3 – Digital Essence – Innerleithen Web Design & Hosting</title>

Reactivating Yoast and it goes back to just the author name.
I have tried editing the template and saving changes but this also made no difference.

I have tested this with all other plugins deactivated to rule out a plugin clash.

My theme supports title-tag as I have the following in the functions.php

function av_theme_slug_setup() 
{
   add_theme_support( 'title-tag' );
}

Not sure what else to check so looking for some advice and pointers please.

• This topic was modified 6 years ago by DigitalEssence.

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