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Home : DIY & Tutorials : How To Remove Site Name From Page Titles in WordPress

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How To Remove Site Name From Page Titles in WordPress

How to remove site name from page titles is WordPress: By default, your site name is added to your page titles. Removing it is an easy fix. Here's how.

Sep 24, 2018 by Jeffrey Powers
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  • Are You Using Yoast?
  • 01) Titles & Metas Section
  • 02) Force Rewrite Titles
  • 03) Post Types
  • How To Remove WordPress Site Name From Post Titles
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You’ve spent countless hours working on your WordPress blog and the SEO for all of your posts. But when you see your article in search engine results, the name of your WordPress site is cutting off or extending your page titles. Here’s how to fix it.

Are You Using Yoast?

The popular WordPress plugin, Yoast, might be your culprit. Yoast is a great plugin and a welcome addition to any WordPress theme. But the default settings for Yoast will add your site name to your blog SEO titles.

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Google search results showing the name of a wordpress blog automatically added to a page title.

It’s incredibly annoying. Especially considering that one of the SEO criteria that Yoast grades you on is the character count of your page titles. So you spend the extra effort to optimize the length of your page title and then Yoast messes it up anyway. Here’s how to remove your site name from your page titles in WordPress.

01) Titles & Metas Section

Sign into WordPress and hover over the SEO link in the sidebar. Then click on “Titles & Metas”.

Yoast Seo Plugin

02) Force Rewrite Titles

In the “Titles & Metas” section of Yoast SEO, you should have the following tabs: General, Homepage, Post Types, Taxonomies, Archives and Other. Click on General. Make sure the “force rewrite titles” option is enabled. Click on the “Save Changes” button to save your setting.

Yoast: Force Rewrite Titles

03) Post Types

Next click on Posts Types in the Titles and Metas section. Here you will see several fields that allow you to customize your titles for posts, pages, media, and other custom page types. The default will look like this: %%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%.

This tells WordPress to put the following information in your page titles: title page separator site name





Delete %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% from any sections that you don’t want it to appear. Most likely only the Post section, but that’s up to you. Then click Save.

Yoast Title Template

How To Remove WordPress Site Name From Post Titles

Hopefully, this tutorial fixes your title issue. Removing your WordPress site name from your post titles is an easy fix once you know what’s causing the problem. Please share a note in the comments if you have any questions.

Jeffrey Powers
Jeffrey Powers

As a podcaster, videographer and blogger, Jeffrey works to convey the geek message. Inspired and passionate about tech and geek life. As a musician, Jeffrey loves to rock the house.


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  1. He Man

    Nov 12, 2021 at 10:34 AM

    i am Searching for this Solution from a Long Time, And Found You. Great Stuff.. Man…
    I am Using An Free Yoast SEO, How I Will Do It ? It Can Only Be Done Via Yoast SEO Tool ? Cant I Fix It By Using Some Internal WP Settings ? Please Help in This

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  2. Ryan

    May 13, 2020 at 9:23 PM

    THANK YOU! I was down deep into template code trying to change that, when the SEO plugin was the cuplrit all along!

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