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1. alexleonard
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Hi there,

   I'm just in the process of finalising my site and want to use Google's meta tags for customising the +Snippet in a +1 share.

   <meta itemprop="name" content="Title of your content">
   <meta itemprop="description" content="This would be a description of the content your users are sharing">

   I can populate the first field just using

   <meta itemprop="name" content="<?php wp_title(); ?>">

   However, I would like to access the WordPress SEO generated description to populate the second meta element.

   Is there a template tag I can use, or some other way to get this information?

   Cheers for the awesome plugin!
   Alex

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/

2. alexleonard
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Ok, I've worked this one out.

   I've got the following code in my head to prepare the correct itemprop items as per Google+ requirements.

   <!-- Add the following three tags inside head -->
   	<meta itemprop="name" content="<?php wp_title(); ?>">
   	<?php
   		$postCustom = get_post_custom($post->ID);
   		$yoastMetaDescription = $postCustom['_yoast_wpseo_metadesc'][0];
   		if ($yoastMetaDescription) {
   			echo '<meta itemprop="description" content="' . $yoastMetaDescription . '">' . "\n";
   		}
   	?>
   	<?php
   		if ( has_post_thumbnail($post->ID) ) {
   			$featuredThumb = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID), 'standard-list-thumb');
   			echo '<meta itemprop="image" content="' . $featuredThumb[0] . '">';
   		}
   	?>

   I'm using 'standard-list-thumb' as my image size, but you'll need to replace it as you see fit.

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