SEO Title Meta

Resolved Cris
(@ctagupa)

4 years, 6 months ago
Great Plugin! Just curious why there’s no return for the SEO Title Meta on the REST API, is this intended?

Something like:
```
{
        "name": "title",
        "content": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet"
      }
```
Is this possible to be added?

Thanks!

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Plugin Author Richard Korthuis
(@rockfire)

4 years, 6 months ago

Hi @ctagupa

Thank you for using our plugin!

Good question, I am assuming you are refering to the <title> tag in the <head>? In that case there are two answers to your question:

First of all is the fact that it isn’t part of the Yoast meta (i.e. the part of the head that is between  and  ).
Second is because the same data already is in the og:title which is in the Yoast meta. So what is the use of adding it a second time?

Please let us know, if this answers your question!

Thread Starter Cris
(@ctagupa)

4 years, 6 months ago

Thanks for the response Richard. Totally makes sense, I’ll just make use of the og:title.
jamiewarb
(@jamiewarb)

4 years, 5 months ago
Hey Richard,

First off, thanks very much for your teams work on this plugin. It works great, and has made what used to be a bit of a problem for us using the REST API into something very simple and easy.

I’m coming across the same problem as Cris, and unfortunately I think that original Yoast does something different to your plugin. Please see below for details.

Yoast has a section for each post called “SEO Title”. When filled out, this will go into the <title></title> tag, and also in og:title.

However, if you then add a Facebook SEO title, og:title will be replaced by the facebook title, but the <title> tag will still use the SEO title that was defined.

However, as this SEO title isn’t passed through, as Cris mentioned above, we can not get the same behaviour as the original Yoast plugin.

Please see these two images for a clearer explanation:

SEO Title but no FB Title: https://imgur.com/a/Av84MdQ

SEO Title and an FB Title: https://imgur.com/a/o8NSrPa

Please let me know if you’ll be adding in a title meta like Cris’ request, or if there’s another way to access this title in the same fashion the original Yoast plugin allows for.

Many thanks,
Jamie
- This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by jamiewarb.
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