Question

I’m unable to get the title in my custom WordPress theme to display properly. The title attribute is set as follows: <title><?php wp_title( '|', true, 'right' ); ?></title>

I took that code straight from the 2012 theme. When I activate the 2012 theme the title looks perfect, but when I use my custom theme with that same code above, I get the address of my website as the title on the homepage, and on every other page, I just get the page name followed by a ” | “. Any idea of what could be causing this? Ive looked for second title tags, but so far nothing. Its ruining my SEO.

Added this to my functions.php:

function twentytwelve_wp_title( $title, $sep ) {
    global $paged, $page;

    if ( is_feed() )
        return $title;

    // Add the site name.
    $title .= get_bloginfo( 'name' );

    // Add the site description for the home/front page.
    $site_description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
    if ( $site_description && ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) )
        $title = "$title $sep $site_description";

    // Add a page number if necessary.
    if ( $paged >= 2 || $page >= 2 )
        $title = "$title $sep " . sprintf( __( 'Page %s', 'twentytwelve' ), max( $paged, $page ) );

    return $title;
}
add_filter( 'wp_title', 'twentytwelve_wp_title', 10, 2 );

Answer 1

The blog name is missing. That’s why only the page title is displayed. Try something like this to have an idea:

<title>
    <?php
    bloginfo( 'name' );
    echo " | ";
    if ( is_home() ) {
      _e( "Home" );
    }
    else {
      // Get the custom Title for this page, if any.
      if ( defined( 'Title' ) ) {
        $LimitWords = Title;
        echo string_limit_words( $LimitWords, 4 ) . " ...";
      }
      else {
      // Get the default Title
        $LimitWords = wp_title( '', FALSE );
        echo string_limit_words( $LimitWords, 4 ) . " ...";
      }
    }
    ?>
  </title>

For that code to work, you have to add this function in functions.php in the style sheet directory:

  if ( !function_exists( 'string_limit_words' ) ) {
    function string_limit_words( $string, $word_limit ) {
      $words = explode( ' ', $string, ( $word_limit + 1 ) );
      if ( count( $words ) > $word_limit ) array_pop( $words );
      return implode( ' ', $words );
    }
  }