Include author's name and date in the title

Hello Cliff,

Not currently, you are the only person who has asked for such options. Can I ask why?

As for iTunes, the iTunes author field is part of search, you should not have to put the author in the title, if search is the reason.

As for the date, wouldn’t you want to enter this per episode to look exactly how you want it formatted? There are many ways to format the date which would make such an option complicated. The data meta data is also arleady part of your listings, it is used to determine your latest episode. Search wise, there may not be value in including a date and depending on the format, could conflict with your episode titles.

Your reasoning for this will help me determine if this is an SEO feature or just customization for a specific use case.

Thanks!

Hi Angelo,

This is not really related to SEO but rather usability..

This is a client’s request. They are a church and have different speakers every Sundays. They like the to include the Speaker’s name and the date because these data are not easily show up on iTunes. It is much easier to put the name and date in the Title so that anyone who access the podcast off iTunes can quickly see who is speaking.

I understand I can add these extra data manually in the SEO text field. What i like to do is to automate this process, if possible, so there’s less chance of error and make it easy for my client to do their job ??

Thanks!
Cliff

Hey Cliff,

There is a way you can do this from your theme. You can add a couple filters to your theme’s functions.php. This way it is custom to your theme, which is most likely what it is ideal for. Your filter could modify the post title only when it is for the feed and append/pre-pend what ever you want to the title before PowerPress uses it.

Are you familiar with WordPress filters?

Hi Angelo,

Thanks for your advice. That won’t work bc the post title is used for something else (so need to keep only the Sermon Title).

No worries. I will tell the client to insert it manually.

Hello Cliff,

You can get this to work with a little logic.

if( get_post_type() == 'sermons' && is_feed() ) {

}

I hope this helps.