Show title tag instead of page name in search results

Hi!

What is the title tag? If it’s custom field, then you can select it on the Advanced Options panel: http://i.imgur.com/Efg2odR.png

Oh ok, I see what you mean. I’m not sure if that’s possible. The title tag is either generated by the theme or by a SEO plugin if you have any.

If you use a SEO plugin I can maybe check for a custom code that might work.

Hi!

I’ve googled for like an hour or so, but I’m afraid it’s not possible to get it.

The wordPress codex says that there is no internal function to get the title tag of a page by it’s ID. Mainly becuase it’s a theme tag and it uses global objects, and it get’s it’s value in the site header.

I’ve tried a few different possible solutions on my test environment, but nothing works. It looks so simple, but yet it’s extremely complicated.

One thing we can try, is to generate the title tag without getting it.

If you can tell me how your title tags look like, I might be able to suggest something. What I mean is it’s structure, like for example “{blog_title} | {post_title]”

The blog title is usually there, plus there is a separator and the post title. The order and the separator is usually different. I think you can check this structure in the SEO plugin configuration.

I have come up with something that might just work.

If the SEO title is set on the Post editor, then it’s probably possible to get it as post meta. Try putting this code to your themes functions.php file (to the bottom):

[php]add_filter( ‘asp_results’, ‘asp_get_seo_title’, 1, 1 );

function asp_get_seo_title( $results ) {

foreach ($results as $k=>$v) {
// Continue if not pagepost
if ($results[$k]->content_type != "pagepost") continue;

// Get the seo title
$seo_title = get_post_meta($results[$k]->id, ‘_yoast_wpseo_title’, true);

// Modify it
if ($seo_title !== false && $seo_title != "")
$results[$k]->title = $seo_title;
}

return $results;
}[/php]

I havent tested this code, but I’m hoping it will work.

Hm, maybe it needs to be filtered with the “the_title” filter.

Try changing that code to:

[php]
add_filter( ‘asp_results’, ‘asp_get_seo_title’, 1, 1 );

function asp_get_seo_title( $results ) {

foreach ($results as $k=>$v) {
// Continue if not pagepost
if ($results[$k]->content_type != "pagepost") continue;

// Get the seo title
$seo_title = get_post_meta($results[$k]->id, ‘_yoast_wpseo_title’, true);

// Modify it
if ($seo_title !== false && $seo_title != "")
$results[$k]->title = apply_filters( ‘the_title’, $seo_title );
}

return $results;
}
[/php]