To control page titles, meta descriptions and sitemaps, install an SEO plugin. Yoast SEO is the plugin most people use. It adds an SEO menu to the WordPress admin and an SEO panel to the post and page editor. It works in classic and block themes.
- Go to PluginsAdd Plugin and search for Yoast SEO.
- Install and activate the plugin.
- Open the SEO menu and follow its first-time setup.
- Go to SettingsGeneral and check Site Title and Tagline.
Two other plugins do the same job: All in One SEO and The SEO Framework. Use one SEO plugin at a time.
WordPress creates a basic sitemap at /wp-sitemap.xml without a plugin. Some SEO plugins replace or turn off the core sitemap.
If search engines skip your site, go to SettingsReading and check that Discourage search engines from indexing this site is off. The setting asks search engines not to index the site, and they can ignore the request.