You should be able to merely create a page with your custom template and then select it as your “static” front page. Just leave the posts page option blank if this page displays your posts anyways.
You can’t force Google to use your title, they may change it in their SERPs: […] we have algorithms that generate alternative titles […] Google’s generation of page titles and descriptions (or “snippets”) is completely automated and takes into account both the content of a page as well as references to it that appear on … Read more
Use the wpseo_opengraph_title filter: function wpse_187763_wpseo_opengraph_title( $title ) { if ( is_singular() && $post = get_queried_object() ) { if ( $_title = get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘custom_field_key’, true ) ) $title = $_title; // Override title with custom meta title } return $title; } add_filter( ‘wpseo_opengraph_title’, ‘wpse_187763_wpseo_opengraph_title’ ); Update: The single = is intended, since we’re assigning … Read more
Fixed. I used code: <div class=”panel callout radius”> <?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( ‘user_email’ ), ’96’ ); ?> <div class=”right”> <a href=”https://twitter.com/<?php the_author_meta( ‘twitter’ ); ?>” target=”_blank”><i class=”fi-social-twitter size-24″></i></a> <a href=”<?php the_author_meta( ‘facebook’ ); ?>” target=”_blank”><i class=”fi-social-facebook size-24″></i></a> <a href=”mailto:<?php the_author_meta( ’email’ ); ?>”><i class=”fi-mail size-24″></i></a> Then I found out this function could only be used … Read more
Honestly, do not worry too much about Meta Descriptions too much. Search engines decides to show their own bits of meta description, based on Keyword Searches. Make sure your content is perfected & is relevant. Having said that, make sure: You go Custom Page > Yoast SEO options > Meta Description & add your meta … Read more
There is only <title> which is present in your example. <meta title> DOES NOT exist as far as I know 🙂
I can’t comment yet, but I can answer – I think your problem may be that you’ve declared your $terms variable twice in your code, within your loop: <?php $terms = get_the_terms( $post->id, ‘knowledgebase_types’ ); ?> and <?php $terms = get_the_terms( $post->post_id, ‘knowledgebase_topics’ );?> Though some more information about what result you are actually seeing … Read more
These are WooCommerce end-points. I don’t see any filters for the yoast sitemap except for stuff like taxonomies. I think you could submit it as a feature requests trough their github page. https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues
Its not a theme or SEO by Yoast issue, Basically, It is a linkedin issue. Unfortunately LinkedIn caches the data it retrieves the first time the link is previewed and keeps it cached for a week! The only way to clear the sharing preview cache for LinkedIn is to trick LinkedIn into thinking your page … Read more
Does this simple .htaccess rule solve your problem? RewriteRule ^/boats/(.*)$ https://www.example.com/the-boats/$1 [R=301,NC,L]