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WordPress

hdetail
hdetail
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Posted by hdetail
hdetail
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Wordpress Title Tag

I'm using a static front-page for my wordpress site and the site title keeps displaying a "-" before my site name.

Any idea what's wrong?

   <?php
  if (function_exists('is_tag') && is_tag()) {
     single_tag_title("Tag Archive for &quot;"); echo '&quot; - '; }
  elseif (is_archive()) {
     wp_title(''); echo ' Archive - '; }
  elseif (is_search()) {
     echo 'Search for &quot;'.wp_specialchars($s).'&quot; - '; }
  elseif (!(is_404()) && (is_single()) || (is_page())) {
     wp_title(''); echo ' - '; }
  elseif (is_404()) {
     echo 'Not Found - '; }
if (is_front_page()) {
     bloginfo('name'); echo ' - '; bloginfo('description'); }
  else {
      bloginfo('name'); }
  if ($paged>1) {
     echo ' - page '. $paged; }
?>

6 Answers

hdetail
hdetail
17,750 Points
hdetail
hdetail
17,750 Points

Sorry about the formatting...

Zac Gordon
STAFF
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hi Spyros,

One thing I noticed is that it looks like there is an extra parenthesis here in your first if statement

single_tag_title("Tag Archive for ""); echo '" - ';

Should be

single_tag_title("Tag Archive for "); echo '" - ';

Try fixing that and see if it changes anything, if not, I'll take another look :)

hdetail
hdetail
17,750 Points
hdetail
hdetail
17,750 Points

Nah no difference :/

hdetail
hdetail
17,750 Points
hdetail
hdetail
17,750 Points

I just went back to using the default Twenty Eleven title. Chickened my way out of it :(

chrisfeld
chrisfeld
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chrisfeld
chrisfeld
3,332 Points

You can modify title tags for your blog from wordpress admin area - settings -> general I always use an SEO plugin (Yoast WordPress SEO is great and free) to generate an SEO title tag.

Zac Gordon
STAFF
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

I would definitely recommend an SEO plugin for this as well. It will take some of the complexity out of your template code and allow for more flexibility and customization of the title tags.