Title tag bug

Howdy lisa,

That is true. Because our plugin is not just one page, but rather 100s of them many with unique titles you can not set them from Yoast. There has been some discussion between us and Yoast to see if we could make something like that happen in the future, but it’s definitely not possible yet without a dash of code. Fortunately we have a snippet that walks folks through this: https://pastebin.com/QU2aMwBJ That will allow you to change the title on any pages. And you’ll note it has some Yoast specific instructions that you will likely find useful.

Cheers!

– Brook

Hi Brook,

I pasted that into a custom plugin and it does work. But I only want to set the title for the main page that the calendar displays on.

It works on that page, but I do want to KEEP the single events titles. How do I do that? I’m using:

// Runs the <title> element through our custom filter
//add_filter('tribe_events_title_tag', 'filter_events_title');
// If you are using certain versions of Yoast you might try deleting the above line and uncommenting the following one
add_filter('wpseo_title', 'filter_events_title');

// Tribe events: Manually set title for each page
function filter_events_title ($title) {

	if ( tribe_is_event() && is_single() ) { // Single Events
		$title = 'Single event page';
	}
	elseif ( tribe_is_month() && !is_tax() ) {  // Month View Page
		$title = 'Title that I want';
	}
	return $title;
}

So what do I put here:

$title = ‘Single event page’;

If I want to keep the generated title?

Thanks!

You are welcome! You would just delete that block entirely. Specifically you would delete this:

if ( tribe_is_event() && is_single() ) { // Single Events
		$title = 'Single event page';
	}
	else

Thus you would just have an if left behind, no elseif. Hope that makes sense.

– Brook

Hey Brook!

Thanks again, the directions above worked great.

Almost got it – so now only view not quite there is after I hit the main page the calendar is on – then when I paginate by month – what is controlling the output for the title tag on that page?

It reads, for example: “Events for February 2015 | ” and there is nothing after the pipe symbol, where I’d like to have the site name.

So I’d like it to be “Events for Month Year | sitename”

Thanks!

Lisa

Ahh for sure. You can add the sitename using the WP API. I forget the exact function. Perhaps it is wp_get_option? Check with the codex for hot to get the site name.

Cheers!

– Brook