Comments on: Fixing my wordpress title tags, revisited

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:12:31 +0000

Hi Thomas,

Only if you can provide me with some of those Montreal Canadiens tickets you’re advertising

No, seriously, that should be fine. Just send me a link when you’re done.

Megan

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montreal canadiens tickets — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:05:30 +0000

Hi,

This is a question for the webmaster/admin here at meganmcdermott.com.

Can I use part of the information from your post above if I give a link back to your website?

Thanks,
Thomas

By: Lenny23

Lenny23 — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:45:38 +0000

Thanks Megan! Today I installed Headspace2 Version 3.6.33 and it works fine, all the other plugins work also. At HeadSpace | Page Settings I entered the title of my blog but this didnt change it. Memory usage went up, but is still ok. Meanwhile I also upgraded to WordPress 3.0 and the Vigilance template also had an upgrade (vers.1.50). But still the frontpage of my blog (2500 posts) looks like ”| My Blog Name”. As you say, when making a whole new install it would work. But that’s not worth the endeavour for this tiny error? Again, thanks for taking the time!

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:10:14 +0000

So, do your titles look like " | Your Blog Name"? In that case it's not pulling a title for the post and I don't know why. The code in the vigilance theme is similar to what I posted (although what I posted is probably using outdated methods and I can understand if it doesn't work! I posted a warning on there in case anyone else has problems with it). So I wonder if one of the plugins did something with that ???? The relevant code in the header.php file looks like this: | . This means print the title of the post, then a separator |, then the name of your blog as specified in your Wordpress settings. If it's showing the separator first it's not getting a value for the post title (wp_title). Sorry I can't help you with this. The only thing to do here may be to re-install. It shouldn't be in the database because your posts do have titles (I'm assuming...), they're just not being pulled into the title properly.

By: Lenny23

Lenny23 — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:30:29 +0000

Why I’m still hesitating to use Headspace2 is, on the Headspace forum quite lots of people report conflicts with other plugins. Since I’m using 26 plugins, might be risky to install a plugin that possibly writes entries into the database which cannot be changed after uninstalling the plugin?

By: Lenny23

Lenny23 — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:23:07 +0000

Thanks Megan, I tried what you said, but the plugins are not the cause. I slightely remember it happened when disabling and deleting a wordpress SEO plugin. The uploaded header.php of the vigilance theme looks like, http://pastebin.com/iaJvsMBu . I tried to exchange the code within line 7 and line 13 of with, “Final Solution” (http://meganmcdermott.com/2006/11/21/fixing-my-wordpress-title-tags/) but then got a white page. When changing the theme to “WordPress Classic” this also doesn’t change it, so it could be also in the database?

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:08:00 +0000

Okay, on further examination the | is from the way the titles are written in the vigilance theme. If you look at the header.php file in your theme editor you’ll see it there. You could try either copying the title bit from the default theme, or using the code I posted in the article I linked above. I can’t offer much more advice without seeing how your blog is set up.

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:00:25 +0000

Hi Lenny, Yes, Headspace will fix this for you. It will overwrite all of the existing Wordpress titles. However, it would be good to diagnose the problem in the first place. I don't know where that | separator would be coming from because (unless they've changed it recently), wordpress uses » as a separator in titles by default. Try disabling plugins one-by-one to see if that changes anything. Also try switching to the default theme and see if that does anything. That will at least help you identify where the problem is occurring. You could also try working with the code that I posted here.

By: Lenny23

Lenny23 — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:46:25 +0000

Thanks for explaining the HeadSpace plugin. My present problem I’m working on since a couple of weeks but can’t solve it, is, that I’m having in my title this | separator sign at the beginning, it looks like | MYHOMEPAGE, ugly. How to remove this |, separator ?
Template is “vigilance” theme (http://thethemefoundry.com/vigilance/), but probably it has to be corrected somewhere in the wordpress core files?
This happened when I deleted a plugin a couple of months ago and from that time this separator was right at the beginning of the title name.
So, my question is, does the HeadSpace plugin give me access to correct this via the HeadSpace plugin panel? Thanks!

By: Daniel Salvage

Daniel Salvage — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:21:11 +0000

Thanks for this, I’ve been looking for weeks for something to sort out my titles. The plugin worked perfectly!

Dan