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Stefano Prete
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Feb 25, 2015 - 6:53 am

Hey guys, a member of my forum just told me something I never noticed. He told me it started just a few days ago, it was different before.

Now, the title of the forum is "Forum IRSA". I am using the FF addon "ColorfulTabs" and I have always saw the title "Forum IRSA" in the tabs.

Now, the tab doesn't show it anymore. Instead, it shows the URL of the page! Very weird...

I am using Yoast Wordpress SEO, I switched it off. No result.

I changed the forum theme, just went back to Unified I was using before. No result.

By right clicking the page, the title tag is correct.

Any idea about how to fix it? At the moment, if I have to be honest, it doesn't bother me because the forum is open to members only. But later on I was thinking about opening to everybody.

Thank you wink

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Yellow Swordfish
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Feb 25, 2015 - 1:29 pm

Yes - the SP theme has no bearing on things like this. The only place is in the forum admin > components > seo. I would check the way it is set up there has not changed...

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Stefano Prete
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Feb 25, 2015 - 3:25 pm

Andy, I have never changed the SEO settings in SP therefore I suppose they are OK...

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Yellow Swordfish
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Feb 25, 2015 - 3:27 pm

It is just that this is the only place where SP may effect what is shown on the browsers tab or title bar.

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Stefano Prete
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Feb 25, 2015 - 3:48 pm

Can I see somewhere the default settings?

I tried by changing them but no effect...

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Yellow Swordfish
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Feb 25, 2015 - 4:25 pm

This s the SEO option data when installed:

$sfseo['sfseo_overwrite'] = false;
$sfseo['sfseo_blogname'] = false;
$sfseo['sfseo_pagename'] = false;
$sfseo['sfseo_homepage'] = true;
$sfseo['sfseo_topic'] = true;
$sfseo['sfseo_forum'] = true;
$sfseo['sfseo_noforum'] = false;
$sfseo['sfseo_page'] = true;
$sfseo['sfseo_sep'] = '|';

But if changing it made no difference then would have to look elsewhere but not sure where,. Are you sure this is not Yoast doing this?

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Stefano Prete
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Feb 26, 2015 - 5:27 am

OK, the settings were fine.

I switched off Yoast again, clear the cache and still nothing...

While the page refreshes, the SEO title is there, it shows up on the tab.

When the page stops, the URL comes up.

Really strange thing...

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Stefano Prete
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Feb 26, 2015 - 5:46 am

Andy, something came to my mind...

Could it be due to the modification Steve did to my site to avoid those CSS problems with the plugin Template Tags?confused

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Yellow Swordfish
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Feb 26, 2015 - 6:47 am

It's extremely doubtful. But there again you have one of the most non-standard WordPress themes we have ever come across so who knows. It might well be ignoring our SEO settings and imposing it's own thing. These settings are determined in the website 'head' which is the area your theme doesn't handle as standard.

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Stefano Prete
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Feb 26, 2015 - 7:04 am

I understand where you're coming from...

But in this case, why has it always worked perfectly and now it doesn't? It just stopped working out of the sudden.

Also, if the problem was related to the head of my template, the Yoast thing wouldn't work anywhere. But it works perfectly on every page BUT the one where the forum is installed...

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