This script will do the job: function wpse_287807_replace_url() { // Get all posts $query = new WP_Query(array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, )); $posts = $query->get_posts(); foreach ($posts as $post) { // Get permalink $url = $post->post_name; // Stop words array $stop_words = array( ‘-a-‘, ‘-the-‘, ‘-of-‘, ); // Replacement $replacement=”-“; // Replace url … Read more
This query pulls the post id, title, permalink, and focus keywords. You could modify this to pull the post meta description and title as well if you wanted. Change post_type to page if you want to pull pages. SELECT wpp.post_title, wpp.ID, wpp.post_date, mt1.meta_value as focus_keyword, REPLACE( REPLACE( REPLACE( REPLACE( wpo.option_value, ‘%year%’, DATE_FORMAT(wpp.post_date,’%Y’) ), ‘%monthnum%’, DATE_FORMAT(wpp.post_date, … Read more
you can select any image and text from a page or post in the social section of your yoast section heres the instructions https://flothemes.com/yoast-seo-social-sharing/ you can also see what facebook is pulling before you share by using the debugger https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
Yoast Seo was changed their options in version 7.0. Sitemap was one of their changes.If you need to exclude some post,pages,etc from sitemap, you need to set it as noindex More info here
If an incorrect <title> tag has been added to the header template the only option that will work is the child theme method. You can’t override template markup with a custom function. If you do use a child theme then don’t use wp_title(), just remove the title tag entirely and register support for support title-tag.
Way overthinking it: <?php add_filter(‘wpseo_opengraph_desc’, function () use (&$data) { $seo_intro = trim($data->seo_intro); if ($seo_intro === ”) { $seo_intro = “{$data->name} – {$data->title}”; } return esc_attr(wp_strip_all_tags(stripslashes(do_shortcode($seo_intro)))); }, PHP_INT_MAX); ?> Essentially, hijack the content with a filter (since that’s what Yoast is using to derive the description) and make sure it’s the last filter to be … Read more
Okay, after digging into various areas, I noticed I have a security plugin that is blocking these changes. Problem solved by whitelisting, 🙂 in case anyone else has this issue, check your security settings.
This is because wp_get_canonical_url can only be used on posts, and cannot be used for tags authors archives etc. Returns the canonical URL for a post. https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_get_canonical_url/ More specifically, no equivalent exists for tag archives because archives and listings do not have canonical URLs. A canonical URL indicates to a search engine the correct and … Read more
Create custom action in function.php, which checks current page type (if it’s category or tag page). function hidden_term_name_action() { if( is_category() || is_tag() ){ $term_id = get_queried_object_id(); $term = get_term($term_id); if($term){ echo sprintf(‘<h1 style=”display:none;”>%s</h1>’, esc_attr($term->name)); } } } add_action(‘hidden_term_name’, ‘hidden_term_name_action’); Paste this code in header.php, which fires this action and pastes term title inside hidden … Read more
Ok here is how I parsed the snippets in case anyone else needs to know $id = get_the_ID(); $post = get_post( $id, ARRAY_A ); $yoast_title = get_post_meta( $id, ‘_yoast_wpseo_title’, true ); $yoast_desc = get_post_meta( $id, ‘_yoast_wpseo_metadesc’, true ); $metatitle_val = wpseo_replace_vars($yoast_title, $post ); $metatitle_val = apply_filters( ‘wpseo_title’, $metatitle_val ); $metadesc_val = wpseo_replace_vars($yoast_desc, $post ); $metadesc_val … Read more