#YOAST SEO EDIT SOCIAL MEDIA META TITLE CODE#
In FireFox View HTML Source if you click on the menu “Edit” > “Find” you can search through the code for various meta tags. This is hidden meta data used by search engines and social networks like Facebook and Twitter when your webpages are shared. What you are looking for are lines of code including: This opens a new FireFox tab with the HTML source of the webpage: see screenshot of the relevant part of the HTML code below – I’ve highlighted the duplicate OG tags in blue. I loaded the commenter’s home page in FireFox and Right Clicked on the webpage (not over an image) and selected “ View Page Source“. You have to check them all because each type could have different results. The selection of WordPress pages should include: the WordPress HomePage, WordPress Post, WordPress Static Page, WordPress Category, WordPress Tag, any other types of WordPress output.
#YOAST SEO EDIT SOCIAL MEDIA META TITLE HOW TO#
How to Check for Duplicate Avada Open Graph Meta TagsĮasiest way to check for duplicate open graph meta tags and other meta tags is to load a selections of WordPress pages in a browser ( FireFox, Google Chrome) and view the HTML source. The site did have duplicate social media meta data, looked like they had either two WordPress plugins that add social network OG (Open Graph) meta tags or the Avada WordPress theme also adds a smaller set of OG meta tags.
If for any reason NONE of the four above solutions work on your WordPress, please get in touch using the form on the right or leave a comment below.Received a comment about duplicate meta tags, the commenter was using the Avada WordPress Theme (a premium WordPress theme) and the Yoast SEO Plugin. Odds are, you have 2 sections and you need to delete one. Skip to next step if you’re worried about deleting existing meta data.įIX 3: Hmm, still not fixed eh, we’re going to have to get a bit technical… Do you have access to edit the header.php file? You’re going to need it! Find the tag… got it? Right, now replace it with this: and click save… did that work? If not, we have one more attempt 🙂įIX 4: Delete the entire piece of code you just pasted in – and click save again. Has that fixed it? CAUTION: This may delete existing meta data.
Did that work? If it is already set as disabled, set as enabled, and check again… any luck? If not, try this…įIX 2:In your Yoast plugin options, still under ‘Search Appearance’ but this time under the ‘Content Types’ tab – delete all of these: %%term_title%% Archives %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% for Posts, Pages and any other custom post/product/category types that show up, then click save. Go to ‘Search Appearance’ and under the ‘General’ tab you should see an options for ‘Rewrite titles.’ Make sure this is set as disabled.
It should be labeled ‘SEO’ on the menu bar. There are a few fixes floating around, but the four we’ve most commonly found that work are as follows:įIX 1: Log into WordPress and go to the Yoast plugin options. However, on some occasions (usually depending on your version of WordPress or the design/theme you’ve got installed) there’s a bug within Yoast that causes each web page on your site to have the page title … TWICE? doesn’t like any webpage to have more than one specified page title – from an SEO point of view it is a big no no and should be avoided wherever possible. However, there can be one INCREDIBLY frustrating side effect to installing Yoast on your WordPress… the dreaded duplicate page titles *dun dun dunnnnn* We use Yoast in pretty much all of our WordPress builds, as it gives our clients the simple option of optimising their own content, allowing them to move away from dependence on SEO support for basic blogging and content amendments. So you’ve installed SEO Yoast for your WordPress website, good for you – it’s a great plug-in that will give your site a good entry level SEO overhaul and help you get to grips with how to optimise your website.
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