YOAST’s SEO Title is stored within a meta_key. Try this- $taxonomy = get_queried_object()->taxonomy; $term_id = get_queried_object()->term_id; $meta = get_option( ‘wpseo_taxonomy_meta’ ); $title = $meta[$taxonomy][$term_id][‘wpseo_title’]; Or this- $titles = get_option( ‘wpseo_titles’ );
An alternate way to avoid empty meta description field is to set a default meta description using meta template variables in the dashboard. This article in the Yoast knowledge base explains how to do this and lists the available variables: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/yoast-wordpress-seo-titles-metas-template-variables/ Here’s what I ended up doing: Login as admin. In dashboard: SEO >Titles and … Read more
I found a solution here: 404 on category.php pagination So, to fix my issue I just needed to add these custom rewrite rules to functions.php: add_action( ‘init’, ‘wpa58471_category_base’ ); function wpa58471_category_base() { add_rewrite_rule( ‘blog/([^/]+)/page/(\d+)/?$’, ‘index.php?category_name=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]’, ‘top’ ); add_rewrite_rule( ‘blog/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$’, ‘index.php?category_name=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]’, ‘top’ ); } Now, all blog pages work, including main blog page, archives, categories, and … Read more
At the top of your .htaccess file, before your existing WordPress directives, you could do something like the following to redirect the old permalink: RewriteRule ^\d{4}/\d\d/([\w-]+\.html)$ /$1 [R=301,L] The RewriteRule pattern matches against the URL-path less the slash prefix. \d{4}/ – matches the 4-digit year, followed by a slash. \d\d/ – matches the 2-digit month … Read more
You can do that programmatically right from inside the plugin’s settings by using the wpseo_canonical filter. You can also set it on a per post basis: You can even set the canonical links for categories, tags and any taxonomy for that matter as well. All you have to do is follow instructions at Canonical URLs … Read more
Try PHP’s in_array. function sitemap_exclude_taxonomy( $value, $taxonomy ) { $excludes = [‘scope’, ‘layout_type’, ‘foo’, ‘bar’]; if ( in_array( $taxonomy, $excludes ) return true; } add_filter( ‘wpseo_sitemap_exclude_taxonomy’, ‘sitemap_exclude_taxonomy’, 10, 2 );
Turns out the single-post.php template was missing a call to the_post(). Since that function initializes all the postdata used by functions like the_content(), WordPress had nothing to display. As for Yoast SEO, I’m guessing it calls the_post() somewhere early on which would populate the WordPress global variables. If the theme was written with Yoast SEO … 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
What I wanted to say in my previous comment: This hook is only fired when the sitemap is being built. After that, it’s cached and always served from cache. That means you’ll never see any change on the frontend because it’s all cached. To disable the cache you can use the following code during development: … Read more
You need to reset your indexables. There are a couple of ways to do this – you can use a WP-CLI command (wp yoast index), or you can use the Yoast Test Helper plugin. If you install the Yoast Test Helper Plugin, you can go to Tools > Yoast Test. In the “Yoast SEO” box … Read more