Comments on: WordPress SEO - Page Titles and Meta Tags

Comment on WordPress SEO - Page Titles and Meta Tags by: t2dman

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 02:04:39 +0000

So where is the plugin??? What you describe looks exactly what is needed for a client

Comment on WordPress SEO - Page Titles and Meta Tags by: wayne

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:58:08 +0000

Well, I guess you may need to escape the html tags. e.g., < becomes <, > becomes >. Otherwise, just email me.

Comment on WordPress SEO - Page Titles and Meta Tags by: rs

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:18:26 +0000

Wayne -

My code lines seem to get edited out of my posts. If you tell me how to avoid this I will repost.

- Roger

Comment on WordPress SEO - Page Titles and Meta Tags by: rs

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:16:24 +0000

Wayne -

Yes thanks Wayne all received and implemented.

I did not use Optimal Title because I do not believe that including the name of the site in every on every page of the site is good SEO. I have replaced in the theme header with this which uses the name of the site in the title only on the home page and uses the post title everywhere else. Much better for SEO!

Coupled with your script modifications Wayne this is the best SEO of wordpress headers possible - Thank you!

- Roger

Comment on WordPress SEO - Page Titles and Meta Tags by: wayne

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:47:30 +0000

chandu,
I would start simple and just get pieces of this stuff working first without worrying about putting it all in a separate file the way I have. However, I’ll start by mentioning that technique. My external php file header_stuff.php is responsible for setting my page title and the two meta tags for keywords and descriptions.
If you place header_stuff.php inside your active theme directory, you include it like this:

if you want to put it one level above into the wp-content/themes directory, use this:

First step, get Optimal Title working. Make sure you’ve installed the plugin and activated it, then replace the code in your Header.php file which outputs your page title with this code:

<?php optimal_title(’»’) . bloginfo(’name’); ?>

Then you can add the meta keywords using Jerome’s plugin:

” />

The description you’ll have to figure out on your own I guess since Jerome hasn’t added that feature to the plugin yet. But I think you can use the_excerpt(); to ask WordPress for a post’s excerpt (when you’re on a page or post — single — page). So probably you’d put inside your meta description tag’s content= property, something like this:

see WordPress Codex, the_template tag for more info on using that template tag.
-wayne

Comment on WordPress SEO - Page Titles and Meta Tags by: chandu

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:07:28 +0000

Hi - Thanks for the fantastic technique using the existing plugins.

Where do we need to put this header_stuff.php created with the stuff above. In which place I need to include the header_stuff.php in my existing theme header template. Do I need to replace everyting inside the ‘header’ tags.

Comment on WordPress SEO - Page Titles and Meta Tags by: wayne

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:56:57 +0000

Roger, you should have received the plugin by email (unless it bounced back to me and I haven’t seen the bounce yet). Your WordPress theme most likely has a file called header.php. Open that for editing and just under the …</title> tag, add that function call. </p> <p>Make sure you’ve enabled the modified Jerome’s Keywords before adding that code to your header file. Otherwise (depending on the PHP settings) you’ll get errors in your page since the function will not exist. </p> </article> <article> <h1>Comment on WordPress SEO - Page Titles and Meta Tags by: rs</h1> <p>Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:42:07 +0000</p> <p>Thank you very much Wayne! I seem to have got it all working and will test it out over the next few weeks. - Roger</p> <p>PS I had to use rather than for some reason. </p> </article> </main></body></html>