Archive title not being rewritten

Peter,

There are options for setting titles for custom post type archive pages in the plugin; under Custom Post Type Settings, make sure you have Enabled “SEO for Custom Post Types” and “Enable Advanced Options”; check all the post types you want to use, and then check “Custom titles” as well, and you’ll have options for setting the title format there. Also, it’s possible to customize the title further using the aioseop_title filter.

Hate to contradict you, but there is no setting on my screen for custom post archives. Custom posts, yes, but not archives. Have a look at this screen grab

Peter,

Sorry, you’re right; I’ve been working on this, but of course none of that is in the plugin yet. For now, you would have to use the aioseop_title filter to do this, then.

I Peter, could you give some directions ? i’m actually facing the same problem with custom post type archive named “property”…
I want to rewrite the archive page with the site name and some other infos.

thanks a lot.

I’m running 2.1.2 of AIOSEO and it’s still not fixed, so here’s how I’m working around it. This requires getting your hands dirty and editing the header.php file, so won’t be of help to you if you either don’t know how, or don’t have access to the theme files:

1. In AIOSEO General Settings, set “Use Original Title” to Disabled
2. In AIOSEO Performance settings set “Force Rewrites” to Disabled
3. In the header.php file, find the code which starts with <title> and ends with </title> and replace it with:

<title><?php if ( is_archive() ) { $postType=get_post_type(); echo $postType . " | "; bloginfo( 'name' ); echo " | "; bloginfo( 'description' ); } else { wp_title(''); }; ?></title>

(note that this is hard-coding the title to how I want it – which is “page name | site name | site description” – so you might want to edit that to suit you.)

Hope that’s of help

Peter

Peter,

You shouldn’t need to do that, either – here’s how you can do this with the aioseop_title filter in All in One SEO Pack:

add_filter( 'aioseop_title', 'peter_rewrite_custom_titles' );

function peter_rewrite_custom_titles( $title ) {
    if ( is_post_type_archive() ) {
        $postType=get_post_type();
        $title = $postType . " | " . bloginfo( 'name' ) . " | " . bloginfo( 'description' );
    }
    return $title;
}

Thanks a lot !!!! i imagine that i can target a specific archive type by putting the name within the : if ( is_post_type_archive(‘property’) )
for example…

numero7,

Yes, you can do that as well, as per the Codex.

Thanks Peter. I did wonder about the aioseop_title filter, but couldn’t find any documentation, so I just decided to hack it the direct way!

numero7 – the filter method should go in your functions.php file (sorry if you knew that already ?? )

Both methods write the post type into the title using get_post_type() so you might not need to do any further targeting.

Hopefully though, both methods will soon be redundant – eh, Peter? ??

Indeed, it’s in the works; but until then, happy hacking!

Hi what about the description ? I’m trying also to rewrite the description in my post type archive because actually I cant control what google takes on my page to fill the description field.

Is there an update on this? I am having the same issue with a WooCommerce install where the main page for the store is title Publications but the page title is shown as Products. I would like this page to have a title of Publications.

Hi douginbrooklyn,

This functionality is currently in testing prior to release. We hope to release in the next week or two at most.

Awesome – thanks!

Looking forward to this too! You guys are great.