Yoast plugin automatically changes site title and tagline

  • Resolved lococola

    (@lococola)


    6 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    When I deactivate the Yoast plugin the site title and tagline displayed on the homepage are displaying correctly, ie: what I’ve set them up to be in the Site Identity setting in WordPress.

    But when I activate the Yoast plugin, it changes the site title and tagline to an old version that we used years ago. And I can’t find any entry of these old texts anywhere on the site or in any code! It’s wracking my brain trying to figure out where Yoast gets this information from…

    In the Yoast settings it simply states that I can edit the title and tagline directly by editing the front page. That’s the Site Identity setting, right? In any case in Yoast I did setup a site name, under the Knowledge Graph section. But that doesn’t appear to havy any effect.

    I changed my theme to Twenty Seventeen to check, but it’s the same problem there. Without the Yoast plugin it’s working fine, with the Yoast plugin I am seeing the outdated site title and tagline.

    Any idea what could be causing this, or where Yoast might be looking for this information? Thanks!

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  • Thread Starter lococola

    (@lococola)

    I should add that I have completely uninstalled and reinstalled Yoast, but to no avail.

    We had a similar issue when the site was first set up.

    The locations we had to change were:

    Dashboard > Appearance > Themes > Customise your active theme > Site Identity > Edit Site Title

    Also

    Go to where you edit front page > Scroll to the bottom, you see snippet preview > Click Title then Edit SEO Title

    This fixed it for us.

    Thread Starter lococola

    (@lococola)

    @reececvo Your seconds suggestion was the fix for me. Hidden in such an illogical place, bit weird but it works ??

    Thanks!! ??

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