How To Get A Variable

It’s more elegant to you create CPT(custom post type) tutor-profile. On this way, you don’t need to override many stuff.

If you want to create custom variable then you should use examples on https://gist.github.com/amboutwe/550c10ede7d065d9264930f5480ca748 Please notice that this filter runs before “content rendering”. So, you need to populate these variables before action wp_head.

You can override meta description via filter wpseo_metadesc.

I think that it should work regardless that page templates aren’t perfect place for something like this.

Other issue is probably because you need to set proper template which will cover all pages including your custom page (and other pages could have %%… in title). An option could be to change %%title%% (instead of adding new variable) which is already populated variable.

Maybe, it’s better to you try to override complete title via filter wpseo_title (and other data with proper filter) before get_header in custom page template. It’s better solution if you want to keep everything in page template.

The most elegant solution could be usage of PHP class (inside class should be filter and entire code to populate variable) . If you use procedural programming then I think that only way to exchange data ( between function and “main code” – template file ) could be global variable. It isn’t perfect because you should avoid “reserved names” in WP or other plugins,… ( $post, $posts, … – https://codex.wordpress.org/Global_Variables ). Anyway, I think that all variable in “template file” are globals (so, you should add some prefix to all variables in template file to avoid side effects).

So, I’ll try to make concept how it could work. The code in functions.php:

// define the custom replacement callback
function get_tutorname() {
    global $tutorname;

    return isset( $tutorname ) ? $tutorname : '';
}

// Register tutorname variable
add_action( 'wpseo_register_extra_replacements', function() {
    wpseo_register_var_replacement( '%%tutorname%%', 'get_tutorname', 'advanced', 'some help text' );
} );

In template file, you should set $tutorname before get_header():

// Replace this line with code which populate $tutorname
$tutorname = 'Tutor One';

get_header();

I didn’t test it, but I think that’s enough to you can make it to work.

As the issues appears to be resolved we have closed this topic in order to keep the overview.