SEOify Your WordPress with Description & Keyword Meta Tags
Ever wonder how to SEOify your WordPress install? Here’s the code I used in my WordPress theme to use custom fields for description and keywords meta tags. The down side to using this method is that you have to modify it for any new customized meta tags you want to use. I really only wanted to customize the description and keywords meta tags, so this worked out great for me.
<?php
if (is_home()) {
$description = "Default description of this website.";
$keywords = "default, keyword, list";
} else {
$description = get_post_meta($post->ID,'description',TRUE);
$keywords = get_post_meta($post->ID,'keywords',TRUE);
}
if ($description) {
echo "\\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"$description\" />\\n";
}
if ($keywords) {
echo "\\t<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"$keywords\" />\\n";
}
?>
Here is another similar method:
<?php
$pagetitle = get_post_meta($post->ID,'pagetitle',TRUE);
$description = get_post_meta($post->ID,'description',TRUE);
$keywords = get_post_meta($post->ID,'keywords',TRUE);
if (empty($pagetitle)) {
echo "<title>";
wp_title('');
echo " - ";
} else {
echo "<title>";
if ($pagetitle!='') {echo "$pagetitle - ";}
}
bloginfo('name');
echo "</title>";
if (!empty($description)) {
echo "\\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"$description\" />\\n";
}
if (!empty($keywords)) {
echo "\\t<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"$keywords\" />\\n";
}
?>
Other meta tags, like character set, are hard coded into the main header.php code because they are the same on every page.
You can find more information about Using Custom Fields on wordpress.org. There are several meta plugins listed on wordpress.org, and a search for custom fields plugins wordpress on Google will return even more options.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:51 pm
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July 11th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Thanks a bunch, I will definately be using this :)
July 11th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Excellent, thanks.
J.R.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Thanks for the share.Will come in handy:)
January 24th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Great article! I’m loving your website;
December 16th, 2009 at 10:05 am
thanx for a great post mate
March 8th, 2010 at 6:50 am
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April 21st, 2010 at 8:08 pm
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April 28th, 2010 at 10:12 am
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May 1st, 2010 at 1:48 am
WordPress is the best blogging platform ever. It is much better than Typepad and blogspot.,,~
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:01 am
Myself I am nub in PHP but how does this code compare to the Platinum SEO Pack Plugin offered a by the WP plugin directory? Any advantages or disadvantages?
May 14th, 2010 at 11:42 am
good idea!
May 16th, 2010 at 5:59 am
I’m doing some research in this field and your post has helped a lot, thank you.
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May 20th, 2010 at 6:14 am
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July 30th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Worked for me thank you!