Perfect WordPress Title Tags Redux

21 responses to “Perfect WordPress Title Tags Redux”

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   Jeff Starr 2009/02/08 2:21 pm • Post Author

   @jidanni: Looks like WordPress gobbled your code! Please repost using <code> tags around each term and individual line. Or, alternately, you may send an email to me (Jeff at the current domain), and I will update your comment accordingly.

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   jidanni 2009/02/08 2:22 pm

   Your program stripped what I was trying to say.

   I was trying to say that you should first produce a set of items.

   Then take these items, and display them one way in the HTML TITLE.

   And then take these items, and display them in another way in the HTML H1, H2, and H3 headers.

   My point is the items should only be produced once.

   Currently you just produce them once, for just the HTML TITLE.

   Then later, they apparently will get produced independently again, for the HTML H1, H2, and H3 headers.

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   Jeff Starr 2009/02/08 2:31 pm • Post Author

   @jidanni: Yes, sorry about that — seems like WordPress gets hungry sometimes ;P You make a great point, however, and I would be more than happy to post any code that might help other readers take advantage of your idea (see comment #13). Otherwise, thanks for sharing your ideas with us! :)

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   Andy 2009/02/11 7:03 am

   I noticed that if I have a static home page in my blog, the title looks like: “- Blogname” (it skips the Bloginfo altogether). And if I change the is_home to is_front_page, it looks like this: “- Blogname – Bloginfo” (note the one extra hyphen in the front, it probably comes from the is_page).

   This is a tad off topic, but, now days what is the role of keywords in search engine optimization? I can probably harness the power of keywords for every page by using a simple custom field?

   Thanks for the nice article!

5. 

   Jeff Starr 2009/02/11 8:29 am • Post Author

   @Andy: Thanks for the heads up on the title-display for static-page blog configurations. I will definitely be looking into it.

   As for keywords, I wish I could say for sure, but unfortunately I am far from an SEO “expert”. I do know that keywords continue to play a vital role in the indexing and ranking of websites, so I continue to do my best to produce content that takes that into consideration. But then again, there will be those who may disagree..

6. 

   Jaysone 2009/12/25 3:00 am

   Hi Jeff, i don’t know why i had to do it like this (wordpress version 2.9):

   WordPress just simply didn’t wanna recognize is_home() and kept putting a (-) infront of my titles. i only got it to work using this way:

   1) { echo ' - page '. $paged; } ?>

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   Carlo 2010/01/06 1:10 am

   Hi Guys,

   I was having the same problem as Andy & Jaysone having the hyphen (-) in front of my “front page”. here is my code that seems to work, please feel free to correct and criticise where necessary:

   1) { echo ' - page '. $paged; } ?>

   Regards,
   Carlo

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   Carlo 2010/01/06 1:12 am

   Sorry, formatting broke… trying again:

   <?php
if (!(is_home()) && (is_front_page()) || (is_home())) {
bloginfo('name'); echo " - "; bloginfo('description');
} else {
if (function_exists('is_tag') && is_tag()) {
single_tag_title("Tag Archive for ""); echo'" - ';
} elseif (is_archive()) {
wp_title(''); echo ' Archive - ';
} elseif (is_search()) {
echo 'Search for "'.wp_specialchars($s).'" - ';
} elseif (!(is_404()) && (is_single()) || (is_page())) {
wp_title(''); echo ' - ';
} elseif (is_404()) {
echo 'Not Found - ';
}
bloginfo('name');
}
?>
<?php if ($paged>1) { echo ' - page '. $paged; } ?>

   Regards,
   Carlo

9. 

   Mahmud Ahsan 2010/03/26 9:37 pm

   Nice Post. It helps me. Thanks for share.

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