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Fix: “WordPress SEO by Yoast” prints site title twice

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November 14, 2011

If you are using “WordPress SEO by Yoast” plugin, then you may have noticed that it prints the site name two times in page title. For example, if the site name is MY BLOG, then it prints “post title – MY BLOG – MY BLOG“. This is a common issue in hard coded themes. They do not simply cooperate with the plugin. This can be fixed by replacing title generator code in your theme’s header.php file with <?php wp_title(''); ?>

First, go to WordPress SEO titles settings and uncheck Force rewrite titles. Then open up header.php file of your theme and search for <title>. Then replace whole <title>some code</title> with <title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title> and update file. This should fix your problem. Now go back to your site and make sure that site name in title is displaying only once. I faced the same problem, and fixed it by doing the above hack.

Update:

Fixing this issue in Graphene Theme is even easier. Go to Graphene Options –> Display –> Miscellaneous Display Options –> Site title options and just put #post-title in Custom content pages site title.

If you are comfortable with child theme and php, you may add this function to graphene child theme’s functions.php file.

function my_remove_filter(){
   remove_filter( 'wp_title', 'graphene_title' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'my_remove_filter' );

This disables Graphene theme’s ability to modify post titles. This is a much better solution.

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Prasanna SP

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Rajesh Kumar
May 19, 2012 at 2:38 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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Hi Prasanna,
Iam using WP Clear theme and facing problem like post title – sitename : sitename. how to fix this problem??
1. Prasanna SP
  June 11, 2012 at 9:34 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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  There may be an option to change the title structure in your theme options. Look for it, if there is no, then try the above hack.
vijay
June 2, 2012 at 12:13 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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Hey,you helped me to fix this issue.thanks alot
1. Prasanna SP
  June 11, 2012 at 9:48 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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  You are welcome Vijay!
simran
June 18, 2012 at 11:27 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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hey i just followed your steps but didn’t find it useful as i share my content on google+ its still showing doule title here are attchments for better vision:
After activating plugin and modifying header:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/37329086/sfdfsd.PNG
Before activating:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/37329086/sdfsd.PNG
Satish
July 8, 2012 at 12:57 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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Thank you very very very very very very very very very very very very much
Actually first i copied what you mentioned above But later i saw that the same code was shown in post title as a code.. Later again i released that i there are no proper spaces in the code. so copied and resolved my problem with yoast
so its not
in the first para. Its
without space and all
any how thanks for the tip mate
1. Prasanna SP
  July 9, 2012 at 6:33 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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  Thanks for the notification Satish! I’ve removed the space from wp_title code and updated the post.
  1. Satish
    July 9, 2012 at 9:02 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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    Cool Dude Thank you very much again
Pixxel Media
October 3, 2012 at 7:42 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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Saved one of my blogs using this tip. Thank you so much Prasanna SP. It was super easy and informative.
Juan
October 6, 2012 at 12:58 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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Thanks
evan
February 24, 2013 at 7:39 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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Awesome, worked great. No more double sitename titles for me. Thanks!
Jan
May 10, 2013 at 7:50 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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Though this post is a little old, it could help me!
Thank you Prasanna!