Title: HEAD element empty
Last modified: August 21, 2016
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# HEAD element empty
* Resolved [missweblash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/missweblash/)
* (@missweblash)
* [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/head-element-empty/)
* Noticed that all the stuff that should be added to the HEAD is actually being
added to the BODY element, with the HEAD element completely empty.
* Anyone else getting this problem?
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* [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
* (@wpyogi)
* [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/head-element-empty/#post-3801130)
* That’s NOT in the original Responsive theme files. What have you modified? Or
what plugins are you using?
* [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
* (@wpyogi)
* [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/head-element-empty/#post-3801132)
* A link to your site would be relevant.
* Thread Starter [missweblash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/missweblash/)
* (@missweblash)
* [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/head-element-empty/#post-3801134)
* 1) I haven’t changed anything – it’s a clean install
2) My site isn’t online
yet. 3) I’m using a variety of plugins, but have deactivated all of them and
the empty tag problem persists.
* [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
* (@anevins)
* WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
* [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/head-element-empty/#post-3801136)
* Where did you get that theme from?
* [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
* (@wpyogi)
* [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/head-element-empty/#post-3801139)
* Perhaps compare your header.php file to this brand new (partial) download:
* ```
>
<?php wp_title('|', true, 'right'); ?>
```
* Thread Starter [missweblash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/missweblash/)
* (@missweblash)
* [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/head-element-empty/#post-3801243)
* Holy moly, this has been painful to debug!
* Turned out to be an issue with an SEO plugin which had been working perfectly
on all my themes up until a recent update.
* Have notified them of the fact it’s injecting invalid markup. Tut tut!
* Thanks for your help anyways 😀
* Thread Starter [missweblash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/missweblash/)
* (@missweblash)
* [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/head-element-empty/#post-3801246)
* I meant to add, that the SEO plugin in question was persisting even after de-
activation, I’m not sure why that would be and I’ve never encountered that before.
Should I report that to WP themselves?
* [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
* (@wpyogi)
* [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/head-element-empty/#post-3801247)
* Try resetting the plugins folder – change the name on the plugins folder to “
pluginsHOLD” for a minute or two.
* Thread Starter [missweblash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/missweblash/)
* (@missweblash)
* [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/head-element-empty/#post-3801261)
* Thanks for that tip 🙂
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* [structure](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/structure/)
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* Last reply from: [missweblash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/missweblash/)
* Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/head-element-empty/#post-3801261)
* Status: resolved