Template files are not the right place to add in functions like that. The template file isnt loaded until late in the hook/filter process. Your function should be in functions.php. This way it can be added in before your tempalte files load, and functions that are in use in them can be altered. Often times … Read more
This is not quite trivial in general case, since it varies depending on title implementation by specific theme. The historical way has been wp_title() call in theme’s template. The newer method is hook–based Title Tag. So it is hard to say specifically without knowing/seeing code of a specific theme. This is one of the reasons … Read more
The “easy” answer is: put a filter on it. add_action( ‘transition_post_status’, ‘my_function’, 10, 3 ); function my_function( $new_status, $old_status, $post ) { if ( ‘publish’ !== $new_status or ‘publish’ === $old_status ) return; if ( ‘post’ !== $post->post_type ) return; // restrict the filter to a specific post type $title = $post->post_title; $restricted_title = “title … Read more
Looks like WP is using HTML entity encoding on the special characters, you need to parse the title using the html_entity_decode() function like so. $title = html_entity_decode(get_the_title($result->post_id)); if ( 0 === post_exists( $title ) ) { $title=”Document Id: “.$result->post_id .’ (Deleted)’; } I am not sure if the post exists function decodes the characters but … Read more
You use the document_title_separator filter. So in your case: <?php function theme_prefix_filter_document_title_separator() { return ‘|’; } add_filter( ‘document_title_separator’, ‘theme_prefix_filter_document_title_separator’ ); ?>
You are getting the two <title> tags most likely because your theme has the title-tag support which automatically adds the title tags in the document head. Excerpt from the above linked page on Make WordPress Core: Adding titles to themes Starting with 4.1 and Twenty Fifteen, the recommended way for themes to display titles is … Read more
Go to the header.php file in your template folder and make sure that between the title tags, there’s only this code: <?php wp_title(”);?> That should do the trick. This error is a combination of your template files with standard settings of the Yoast SEO plugin.
the_title is always the title of the current post. What you probably want is something like wp_title or get_bloginfo and bloginfo(‘name’);. Take a look at your headers code to see exactly what your theme uses
In any properly coded theme the title should be completely generated with wp_title() and easily filterable to specific string (in functions.php or otherwise): add_filter( ‘wp_title’, function () { return get_bloginfo( ‘name’ ) . ‘ | ‘ . get_bloginfo( ‘description’ ); } );
First things first, lets clean up your code: <?php $wptitle = the_title(); $wptitle = str_replace(‘&’, ‘and’, $wptitle);?><?php echo $wptitle; ?> Lets remove the PHP tag spam and put things in nice clean lines: <?php $wptitle = the_title(); $wptitle = str_replace(‘&’, ‘and’, $wptitle); echo $wptitle; ?> Now if we look at the problem, the_title, that function … Read more