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1. barnster
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi all.

   I am trying to enable unique page descriptions for all pages, categories, tags and posts.

   I use this code in header.php to pull out the description based upon the content type (home, category, tag, month, post):

   <meta name="description" content="<?php if ( (is_home()) || (is_front_page()) ) {
   	echo ('homepage description goes here');
   } elseif(is_category()) {
   	echo category_description();
   } elseif(is_tag()) {
   	echo '-tag archive page for this blog' . single_tag_title();
   } elseif(is_month()) {
   	echo 'archive page for this blog' . the_time('F, Y');
   } else {
   	echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "custompagedescription", true);
   }?>">

   This works fine for all standard content but this doesn't seem to be working for a custom category for some reason; instead, it shows the description for the most recent post within the custom category.

   If I try using: <?php echo category_description() ?> somewhere else on the page, then this does pull out the description for the custom category.

   I can only assume that the code above is not identifying the custom category as a category and so is defaulting to showing the description for the most recent post.

   Anyone know why this is? If this is the case, then how would I include an elseif for a custom category?

   Thanks for your help.

2. keesiemeijer
   moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   If you mean "Custom Taxonomies" you can use the conditional tag is_tax()

3. barnster
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You little beauty.

   That does it nicely. Final code is:

   <meta name="description" content="<?php if ( (is_home()) || (is_front_page()) ) {
   	echo ('homepage description goes here');
   } elseif(is_category()) {
   	echo category_description();
   } elseif(is_tax()) {
   	echo category_description();
   } elseif(is_tag()) {
   	echo '-tag archive page for this blog' . single_tag_title();
   } elseif(is_month()) {
   	echo 'archive page for this blog' . the_time('F, Y');
   } else {
   	echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "custompagedescription", true);
   }?>">

4. keesiemeijer
   moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Nice! You can even simplify your code with this:
   

   elseif(is_category() || is_tax()) {
   	echo category_description();
   }

   the || part means "or"

5. barnster
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Even better!

   Thank you.

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