Site Name Appears First, No Spaces After Site, Doubling, Won't Respond

Might be a dumb question but sometimes is the littlest things that screw everything up. Are you putting a space between %%sitename%% and %%sep%% ? ( it might help if you post it here exactly as you have it as we cannot see your settings) Also, if you make the change and then go right to google you wont see the change yet. In the editor you will see the change live though (just in case you did’t know, i just found out myself)

That is a good point. I should have put it, so I will try to be detailed. But no, I didn’t know that it doesn’t show right away. Can you tell me where I look in my editor to see that change?

Here are the settings, which I actually put back as they were, and I think enough space is there but IDK:

HOME: %%sitename%% %%sep%% %%sitedesc%%

POSTS, PAGES, MEDIA (POST TYPES): %%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%

TAXONOMIES (ALL): %%term_title%% Archives %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%

I hope that makes sense. Thank you for trying to help.

Ok that helps more.

On the “Home” Tab where you have: %%sitename%% %%sep%% %%sitedesc%%

Try this:

%%sitename%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitedesc%%

If that doesn’t work you can try checking the box “force rewrite titles” under Title Settings in the “General” tab and see if that works for you. Also, make sure you have the code below in your header.php

<title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>

For the home page you wont be able to see your changes unless your “Home” page is an actual page in your site not just part of your theme. But, you can look on any page/post that you have made and in the section for “WordPress SEO by Yoast” right under your post editor you will see a “snippet preview” as it will appear in google. Any change you make will show there.

Also…if you re-submitt your sitemap to google manually it might be faster then letting the plugin do it. Not sure if it is as i am trying it for the first time myself but it’s worth a shot

Ok. I put that in the Home tab, and the header.php was good already. Before I change it over to what you suggested, something did change, but to “Page” (space) “Site Name” on the Contact page. But on posts, the Site Name was still before the posts without a space between Site Name and Post Title. Since I changed it t your suggestion, the snippet looks right, so I guess I should wait to see Google and others. I am going to reintroduce a site map and see.

Well, your code suggestion definately fixed the “Home” snippet in all of the search engines, but Posts themselves are still not correct. I checked the “Force Retitle” button, and am wondering if I should maybe uncheck it. This is what I have for posts:

%%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%

That should be right, but maybe I just need to be more patient? It has to be something so little and stupid. The header looks good. Then again, I think it does.