TITLE tag displaying site name instead of post title at make.wordpress.org

[laryswan]

Many/most make.wp.org pages have the same <TITLE> tag. That’s got big SEO implications, of course, and it also makes it tough to identify and revisit previously viewed pages (attaching a screen shot of my browser history). Quickest fix would probably be to populate the <TITLE> field with the page title instead of the site name.

[laryswan]

screen shot of multiple identical page TITLEs

[Otto42]

That's a good initial patch, but it produces single post titles like so:

"CampTix sales through PayPal Weekend Outage - Make WordPress Community"

Should we change the formatting of those any before making such a change across the whole make system? Prefix it with something perhaps?

[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to Otto42:

That's a good initial patch, but it produces single post titles like so:

"CampTix sales through PayPal Weekend Outage - Make WordPress Community"

That's what the old wporg-p2​ theme was using before the switch to wporg-breathe​ was made, which uses get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) for all titles for some reason. As far as I can see, it was not an intended change.

[laryswan]

Regarding both SEO and the UI, the best practice would be to add any info in addition to the page title as a suffix.

Replying to Otto42:

Should we change the formatting of those any before making such a change across the whole make system? Prefix it with something perhaps?

[iandunn]

Replying to SergeyBiryukov:

As far as I can see, it was not an intended change.

That was my guess too. @obenland, did you intend for this to happen in r3514?

[obenland]

I did not, it should work as in meta-2497.patch.
The global header should probably too fwiw

[ocean90]

In 4941:

Breathe: Use wp_get_document_title() for the title tag.

Props SergeyBiryukov.
Fixes #2497.