Remove site name from <title> tag

Question

My current <title> tags are like this:

Blog post title | Site name

How do I remove "Site name" so that the <title> tags will be like this:

Blog post title

Except, of course, on the front page, where the <title> tag should be:

Site name

Please take into account that I'm a complete Wordpress newbie.

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Edit: Here's my current <title> tag from header.php:

<title>
<?php
if ( defined( 'WPSEO_VERSION' ) ) {
    // WordPress SEO is activated
        wp_title();

} else {

    // WordPress SEO is not activated
    wp_title( '&#124;', true, 'right' );
}
?>
</title>

Answer 1

The best (and easiest) thing to do is to use the wp_title filter.

First, clean up your call to <?php wp_title(); ?> in your template. Replace what you have with this:

 wp_title( '|', true, 'right' );

Then, in functions.php (or in a child Theme functions.php; normal caveats apply), add the following:

function wpse95147_filter_wp_title( $title ) {
    if ( is_single() || ( is_home() && !is_front_page() ) || ( is_page() && !is_front_page() ) ) {
        $title = single_post_title( '', false );
    }
    return $title;
}
add_filter( 'wp_title', 'wpse95147_filter_wp_title' );

This filter will completely overwrite the $title output in single-page contexts. (The actual conditional is taken directly from core, from the wp_title() function definition itself.)

Last I checked, WordPress doesn't actually output the site title anywhere in wp_title(); so if you're seeing that, something is adding it (perhaps your Theme?). Nevertheless, if you want to output it, just write a complimentary conditional in the above filter; e.g.:

function wpse95147_filter_wp_title( $title ) {
    if ( is_single() || ( is_home() && !is_front_page() ) || ( is_page() && !is_front_page() ) ) {
        $title = single_post_title( '', false );
    }
    if ( is_front_page() && ! is_page() ) {
        $title = esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name' ) );
    }
    return $title;
}
add_filter( 'wp_title', 'wpse95147_filter_wp_title' );

Answer 2

Add this line in your header.php file

<title><?php wp_title();?></title>

Add Below code in theme's functions.php file

function your_wp_title( $title, $sep ) {
    global $paged, $page;
    if(is_front_page()){        
        $title = get_bloginfo( 'name' );   
        return $title;
    } else {
        if ( is_feed() )            
        // Add the site name.
        return $title;
    }
}
add_filter( 'wp_title', 'your_wp_title', 10, 2 );

Reference:http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/wp_title

Answer 3

On my template file header.php I replaced the title line by this

<title><?php is_front_page() ? woo_title() : wp_title( '' ); ?></title>

In my case I am using a woothemes template, that's why that woo_title() output.

Here, you can check in a single line if you are on home page, if true, you can allow to display the blog/site title, if false output the title without the site name, just will display your post or page title.

Answer 4

i was haveing this issue with posts so i searched the interet and i made a little plugin that remove the blog name from the posts

########### start remove blog title from posts #######
 function wp_abdul0201_wp_title( $title ) {
    if ( is_single() ) {
        $title = single_post_title( '', false );
    }
    return $title;
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_document_title', 'wp_abdul0201_wp_title' );
########### end remove blog title from posts #######

please notince this code

if ( is_single() )

it only applies to posts title you can add more codition like

if ( is_single() || is_archive ) 

here i added archive pages too i hope you got a general idea of how it works

Answer 5

easiest way Ive found is in Wordpress Settings tab, remove the "Title" of your site. Not the most programmatic, but easiest.

Answer 6

<?php wp_title(false); ?>

Try this and also read more here

|indicates vertical bar as separator. true argument stands for $display, whether to display the title or no. Third arugment is position where to put separator.