Ryan Sullivan

Is the other website on the same server using the same theme? It could be an issue with the theme itself.

Can you try activating the TwentyEleven or TwentyTwelve theme to see if the issue persists?

If the issue resolves with a different theme, then you’ll know to contact the theme developer to help resolve the title attribute being displayed.

Which WordPress theme are you using? Are you using the latest version?

Do you have the same issue with all plugins deactivated?

How are you adding the Title Attribute? Are you adding it to this field on in the WordPress Menu area? https://i.imgur.com/U09oFzN.png

It sounds like you might be dealing with some kind of caching issue.

Do you have WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache running on your site? If you do, you should make the changes to the widget and then clear the cache from the caching plugin that you use.

Usually a “Delete Cache” or “Empty All Caches” link will be available in the toolbar. Otherwise you may need to go into the plugin settings to delete the cache.

Facebook caches all of the metadata from your site including descriptions, etc.

I ran your site url through the FB debugger here: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

That seems to have solved the issue.

Hi there,

It looks like your site has been hacked. https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.jaytoddphotographer.com/

You can follow the instructions from the codex to clean it up https://codex.www.ads-software.com/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked

Sometimes webhosts will assist with this type of cleanup as well so you may want to contact your host first.

Thank you for the super great support. I’ll send you a note.

I should have asked this first but are you using the latest versions of the WordPress SEO plugin and WordPress? My testing was done with WordPress SEO version 1.2.5 and WordPress 3.4.1. Using that setup and an unmodified version of the Simple Grid theme it’s working fine.

If you activate TwentyTen or TwentyEleven theme do you have the same problem? It seems to be an issue with the theme.

However, when I choose “Force Rewrite Titles” on the General tab in the Yoast Plugin, my title tags look correct. (I downloaded and installed the simple grid theme for testing). You shouldn’t have any issues if you choose the template tags from my first response and choose “Force Rewrite Titles” on the General tab of the plugin.

Confirm that your name and site description are set in Settings –> General on your WordPress dashboard. If those fields are blank or aren’t the values that you want, it won’t display properly in your title tag.

Screenshot:

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Plugin developers are asked to update plugins if they pose a security risk so you shouldn’t have any troubles.

Hi Equorne,

There are various factors that come into play here.

Here’s a screenshot for the default settings for the homepage in Yoast SEO that display your website name followed by the description.

https://i.imgur.com/tVbkj.jpg

If that’s how your plugin is set, then there may be an issue with the theme you’re using. If you can post your site URL someone here can take a look. The fact that it’s only an issue on the homepage makes me think there may be SEO settings or custom functions within the theme that are affecting the title output for the homepage.

I see.

It’s not recommended to make files publicly accessible, but you could use something like the NextGEN gallery plugin to achieve what you’re trying to do.

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

It will allow you upload multiple directories and images and have display them in gallery format.

What are you using to view the feed? Browser, RSS feed reader?

Have you edited the theme files?

You’ll notice that if you resize the “working browsers” and then scroll back to the right, that the footer has the same issue.

One possibility you could look at is adding a min-width to the footer.

#gray-foot {
width: auto;
min-width:1164px;
background: #CECED3;
color: #43424A;
border: 1px solid green;
}

#dark-foot {
background: #43424A;
color: white;
min-width:1166px;
width: 100%;
}

It’s a little bit of a hack, but it’ll work. Another option could be to add a viewport to the header of your site.

Something like this:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=1164" />

I’m not familiar with your theme, but it sounds like you’re wanting to display excerpts instead of full posts.

This guide can help you achieve that.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Excerpt