Category name in page title – Google Analytics content grouping

  • Honza Felt

    (@honzikf)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hello,

    Google has launched a new Content Grouping feature. There is just one issue with that.

    URLs on my blog are structured in the following way: http://www.mydomain.eu/post-name. I do not want to add category name to the URL as it would impact its robot-friendliness.

    Fortunately, GA also allows to group content by page title. So if I can put the names of the categories into the <title></title> tag, I still can create the content group.

    Now how does that work? Is there a way to add category into the <title></title> without having to input it manually to every single post?

    I run a couple of sites. Is there a way of universally fixing this for all of them? I know an All-in-One SEO plug-in would solve this but I don’t like to install additional plug-ins unless I really have to.

    Cheers for ideas!

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  • Mrinal Roy

    (@mkrdip)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi

    Add the following codes in your website’s activated Theme header.php file.

    <title>
	<?php wp_title(''); ?><?php if(wp_title('', false)) { echo ' –'; } ?>
<?php if(is_single()) { $cats = get_the_category($post->ID);
foreach( $cats as $cat ) { echo $cat->cat_name; echo ' - '; }
} ?>
	<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
</title>

    Reference: Function Reference/get the category

    Thread Starter Honza Felt

    (@honzikf)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Thank you so much, Mrinal! It works!

    Just a question, if I wanted to add two categories into the title, would that be possible? My posts are very rarely only in one category.

    Thank you for your advice!

    Mrinal Roy

    (@mkrdip)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    I’ve checked the following snippet & worked for me with Twenty Twelve Theme. You can check also, I just call all the categories instead of a single category.

    <title>
	<?php wp_title(''); ?><?php if(wp_title('', false)) { echo ' –'; } ?>
<?php if(is_single()) { $cats = get_categories($cat_args);
foreach( $cats as $cat ) { echo $cat->cat_name; echo ' - '; }
} ?>
	<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
</title>
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