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    • Atomicx
      Atomicx last edited by

      I was referred to this plugin and have found it to be the most irritating and poorly designed plugin in the world.

      I want to be able to set my titles without it changing my page headers as well.

      For instance -

      If I set my title to be "This is my article name | site name" it will make my H1 tag read the same. I do not want or desire this nonsense. Why would they think this is something wise? Why would I want my site name on every single H1 tag on my site?

      How can I fix this? I only want my title to be my title. I want my H1 tag to remain the post/page name that I define in wordpress.

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      • KaneJamison
        KaneJamison last edited by

        Hey Noah,

        Ray's comment above is correct but might be unclear. Yoast handles this the way you want - you've got a theme issue. This code is wrong:

        if(!wp_title("",false)) { echo bloginfo( 'title');} ?>

        This tells Wordpress to output "page title - blog name" as the H1. Yoast isn't interfering in that. You'll want your H1 to say this:

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        • Bryan_Loconto
          Bryan_Loconto @Atomicx last edited by

          Ahh I see! Yeah each of them have their ups and downs. In my experience I've come to the conclusion that AIO does things in a much cleaner fashion. And for us it just works better. Nothing bad or wrong with Yoast, I guess it is simply a preference thing.

          I don't believe you can disable specific features in Yoast but if anyone else has experience with that, please feel free to chime in. Inquiring minds would like to know 😃

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          • Atomicx
            Atomicx @Bryan_Loconto last edited by

            I just turned off AIO. I prefer it for titles and stuff. But yoast had the rel canonical function that I needed. I wish there was a way to turn off parts of yoast

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            • Bryan_Loconto
              Bryan_Loconto last edited by

              Hey Noah Glaser!

              We've also experienced issues with Yoast. Have you tried using All in One SEO Pack? I am sure there are good and bad that come along with this one as well but in my experience, AIO is much cleaner and a more useful tool that Yoast. Hope this helps in some way! Good luck!

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              • Ray-pp
                Ray-pp @Atomicx last edited by

                Sorry, my response was unclear. The theme is choosing to use the wrong title for the H1 which results in both the <title>tag and the <h1> tag being the same.</p> <p>As Oleg pointed out above, you'll want to update the theme to use the function mentioned to keep them separate.</p></title>

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                • OlegKorneitchouk
                  OlegKorneitchouk @Atomicx last edited by

                  use  the_title();  for the H1 tag instead

                  Not sure what that other code does... if(!wp_title("",false)) { echo bloginfo( 'title');} ?>

                  if no title set, show blog title? what pages would this affect?

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                  • Atomicx
                    Atomicx @Ray-pp last edited by

                    That is how I want it. I want my H1 to be the name of the page or post. I do not want it to be the title tag though. So that again is going back to something with yoast. Why is it insisting on changing my page title to the title tag

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                    • Ray-pp
                      Ray-pp last edited by

                      That's seems like your themes error - they set the h1 to be the same as the page title.

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                      • Atomicx
                        Atomicx @Ray-pp last edited by

                        I have modified the auto-generated tags. I want to include my site name at the end of the titles but cannot do so if it will place it in my headers too. And that is what is currently happening.

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                        • Atomicx
                          Atomicx @OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

                          I am editing the "SEO Title" and that is what is changing my headers too.

                          This is my header theme code

                          if(!wp_title("",false)) { echo bloginfo( 'title');} ?>

                          So yoast is somehow overwriting this code to make it the same as my "seo title"

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                          • OlegKorneitchouk
                            OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

                            The plugin doesn't affect any H1 tags at all.

                            I'm guessing that you are inputting the SEO title into the wrong section. Name you post whatever you want regularly (this will be your H1), then scroll down to the Yoast section and change the field called SEO Title (which will only change your title tag).

                            If its doing something else, then the problem is with your theme.

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                            • Ray-pp
                              Ray-pp last edited by

                              Hi Noah - Sorry to hear that you're having difficulty with Yoast. TBH, Yoast is the best WordPress SEO plugin out there and is very effective when used properly.

                              Have you adjusted the general settings so that the auto-generated titles are to your liking? The H1 tag ends of being the Post/Page Title that is manually entered when editing the post/page.

                              Also, make sure that your screen options, on the edit page, are set to show the Yoast SERP simulator. There you can further adjust the SEO settings to yours needs.

                              I agree, your Page Title and the H1 tag should be different - targeted towards the same topic, but creatively different to get the most benefit.

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