I upgraded to the newest version of WordPress (2.8.6) and the SEO plug-in (1.6.8.1) today. Both installed successfully…however now if I select "rewrite" in the plug-in admin panel, the titles of the posts and pages on my site are re-written strangely – either with no title prefix at all (ie: " | Blog Title") or with some category title (ie: "Category | Blog Title"). This is happening both for pages and posts – whether a custom title is specified or not.
I tried installing an older version of the plug-in (1.6.6 (?)), but the issue persists. Is this a compatibility issue with the latest version of WordPress, or is there some other issue I'm not aware of?
Post edited 11:35 am – December 13, 2009 by grandbrands
I was having a similar issue, not after an upgrade, but just after installing the SEO pack for the first time. The re-write title feature was not working at all. The way I fixed it was checked how the <title> tag is written in the header of the 'Classic' wordpress theme, and copy that tag over to replace the <title> tag in my custom theme. As soon as I did that and uploaded the new header.php file, the SEO pack custom titles worked