Problem with homepage title on WP site

[efeezy]

This is driving me fricking nuts. The title on the index page of a word press site I have is showing the title of an old post that I deleted a long time ago. On top of this, I have all in one SEO plugin activated and it should be pulling that title for the homepage.

As I usually do, I leave the WordPress site title empty in the general setting, and let All in One SEO do it's thing with title and description.

I've gone into myphpadmin and made sure there's no remnant files from that post, but I can't figure out why that title is still showing on the homepage.

My title code is standard issue, obviously when I take that out of header.php, the title goes away. Any ideas where to look to fix this thing.

<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>

 

[MikeT3]

Have you tried hard coding it or using another SEO plugin?

 

[Drake]

Maybe try not leaving the title blank in the settings?

Is that old deleted post sitting in the trash bin? Maybe permanently delete it.

 

[efeezy]

I figured out part of the problem. For some reason, it's pulling the category name of the earliest post made on the blog. The category name for that post that I deleted was still showing, so I deleted it and now the homepage title shows the cat name for the next oldest post from over a year ago.

The plugins aren't jiving with the title tag for some reason, because if I deactivate All in one SEO, and put in a title on the General setting page, it get's rid of that post title and uses the title I selected for the homepage.

It's doing it with other SEO plugins as well, so for some reason it's not allowing the plugin title to take precedence. Why it's showing a category title on the home page is still beyond me. I can't see anything that would be making it do that.