Conflict with User Account Twitter Data in Themes

  • neotrope

    (@neotrope)


    10 years, 5 months ago

    HI, Joost and co…

    ran into one issue with Yoast and several theme devs lately.

    Specifically, under each user account setup, the field for Twitter is now common to Yoast and many themes, and themes use the field to put twitter link in things like an author box.

    Problem is that Yoast SEO looks for simply @name from the user > twitter field to print in the META.

    So, this ends up doing this:

    <meta name="twitter:creator" content="@https://twitter.com/USER"/>

    however, if we put just @user in the twitter field, we would see this in themes under things like author box

    Follow on twitter: <a href="@USER"/>

    LIKELY BEST FIX would be to come up with a new field the user account setup, like Yoast Twitter ID vs simply Twitter.

    That way we could have:

    Yoast Twitter ID = @user
    Twitter = https://twitter.com/USER

    Since the field “twitter” is now a standard in most themes, if not WP, then it seems more logical for Yoast to either filter out the URL when it’s there to just print the @user .. or setup alternate field for the non URL version of code.

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

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