Wordpress 'Hide Title' Feature, does this help shorten title length
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Im wondering if anyone with some Wordpress experience can help me.
I am using Yoast to create my page titles, but yet Moz tells me that my page titles including my actual page title tag which is 'dumfries wedding photography | Hemera Visuals'
by clicking on the 'hide title' feature in wordpress will this in turn stop wordpress from automatically adding my page title and therfor bring my title length down drastically? And if so will I have to wait till google next crawls my page to see if this works?
Kind Regards Cameron.
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Hi C Pagan,
I work almost exclusively with WordPress and I am very familiar with the Yoast SEO plugin. If your theme has the option to hide titles or you do this with some customization this does not remove the titles from the pages and posts themselves but hides them from being visible to humans not bots and search engines.
In Yoast you have to manually set the page title in the admin under settings - general site title. For all pages and posts Yoast will automatically use the page or post title along with the site title so if your page title is Plumbing and your site title is Plumbing NY your page title will be Plumbing - Plumbing NY by default.
You must manually change your SEO page titles in the meta box underneath the editor on the individual pages or posts to be what you want them to be. Here you can also specify your focus keyword and the pages description.
See image for the meta box
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Hi C Pagan,
It been a little while since my wordpress days so bare with me.
Wordpress themes normally add a page title in the form of a heading to many pages - The hide title option as far an i am aware removes this heading, either by stopping the code generating it or moving it way off the page where it is not visible.
If this is still correct, then the hide title features will have no impact - the error from moz it talking about the Title bar - this is the text that appears on the tab in your browser, you can preview it in its full length in most browsers by mousing over it for a few seconds. You can use this to preview any changes you make without having to wait for the listing to change in google.
I would imaging your titles are being automatically generated using the page name plus a prefix or suffix and together it has become to long
I think in yoast you do something like SEO → Titles & Metas to get where this is editable, but it has been a while.
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