Title: Pipe Separator Missing
Last modified: October 20, 2021

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# Pipe Separator Missing

 *  Resolved [Clint Sanchez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clintsanchz/)
 * (@clintsanchz)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pipe-separator-missing/)
 * Is Yoast trying to tell us something?
 * On a new site, with Version 17.1 installed, I notice that the | is missing.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fpipe-separator-missing%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Support [Michael Tiña](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikes41720/)
 * (@mikes41720)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pipe-separator-missing/#post-14857123)
 * Hi [@clintsanchz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clintsanchz/)
 * Yoast is dedicated to keeping you and your site up to date with the latest SEO
   changes. Recently, Google has consistently replaced the pipe ( | ) and tilde (
   ~ ) separators in search results. Therefore, Yoast SEO 17.1 removed these choices
   from our plugins and reverted the separator to the em dash ( — ). You can change
   the default separator with the steps here: [How to change the title separator in Yoast SEO](https://yoast.com/help/title-separator/)
 * You can learn more about why we made this decision in our release post for Yoast
   SEO v17.1 – [https://yoast.com/yoast-seo-17-1/](https://yoast.com/yoast-seo-17-1/)
 *  [devnihil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devnihil/)
 * (@devnihil)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pipe-separator-missing/#post-14878804)
 * We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you
   require any further assistance please create a new issue.

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## Tags

 * [separator](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/separator/)
 * [title](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/title/)
 * [title separator](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/title-separator/)
 * [Yoast](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/yoast/)

 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [devnihil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devnihil/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pipe-separator-missing/#post-14878804)
 * Status: resolved