Title Issues While Using WordPress SEO by Yoast

[lopreg]

Hi,

I am using the wordpress seo plugin on my site which I discovered doesn’t work well for titles on budypress pages. I used the code snippet below to fix the issue.

COPY CODE

// Fix wpseo title
add_filter('wpseo_title', 'buddypress_wpseo_title');

function buddypress_wpseo_title($title) {
    $wpseo = WPSEO_Frontend::get_instance();
    $separator = $wpseo->options['separator'];

    $separator_options = array(
        'sc-dash' => '-',
        'sc-ndash' => '–',
        'sc-mdash' => '—',
        'sc-middot' => '·',
        'sc-bull' => '•',
        'sc-star' => '*',
        'sc-smstar' => '⋆',
        'sc-pipe' => '|',
        'sc-tilde' => '~',
        'sc-laquo' => '«',
        'sc-raquo' => '»',
        'sc-lt' => '< ',
        'sc-gt' => '>',
    );

    if (array_key_exists($separator, $separator_options)) {
        $separator = $separator_options[$separator];
    }
    $bp = buddypress();
    if (bp_is_user()) {
        $title = bp_get_displayed_user_fullname() . ' | ' . ucfirst($bp->current_component);
    } elseif (bp_is_group()) {
        $title = bp_get_current_group_name() . ' | ' . $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug][bp_current_action()]['name'];
    }

    return $title . ' ' . $separator . ' ' . get_bloginfo();
}

However, certain pages on my site now show my site name twice on the titles as can be see here =>http://urlgone.com/301/25fd31/.
How can this be fixed?
I have looked at http://kb.yoast.com/article/76-the-seo-title-output-for-the-plugin-doesnt-work-as-expected but can’t find where to implement it on kleo. The Force a Rewrite option did not fix the issue

[Laura]

Hello, will assign the ticket to a higher support level who can help and advise you in your query.
Thanks! 🙂

Hi there!!! Help others from the community and mark any reply as solution if it solved your question. Mark as a solution

[lopreg]

Thanks for the response @Laura. I think I solved the issue by editing some of WpSEOs title templates from the default %%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% to just %%title%%. What I don’t know is if this will have any negative SEO effect in future.
If there is a better way around this, I will love to know. Thanks again

[touren]

does for the double title post already exist a tweek?

[rikbutterflyskull]

i fixed the previous snippet for the double title:

COPY CODE

// Fix wpseo title
add_filter('wpseo_title', 'buddypress_wpseo_title');
function buddypress_wpseo_title($title) {
    $wpseo = WPSEO_Frontend::get_instance();
    $separator = $wpseo->options['separator'];

    $separator_options = array(
        'sc-dash' => '-',
        'sc-ndash' => '–',
        'sc-mdash' => '—',
        'sc-middot' => '·',
        'sc-bull' => '•',
        'sc-star' => '*',
        'sc-smstar' => '⋆',
        'sc-pipe' => '|',
        'sc-tilde' => '~',
        'sc-laquo' => '«',
        'sc-raquo' => '»',
        'sc-lt' => '< ',
        'sc-gt' => '>',
    );

    if (array_key_exists($separator, $separator_options)) {
        $separator = $separator_options[$separator];
    }
    $bp = buddypress();
    if (bp_is_user()) {
        return bp_get_displayed_user_fullname() . ' ' . $separator . ' ' . get_bloginfo();
    } elseif (bp_is_group()) {
        return bp_get_current_group_name() . ' ' . $separator . ' ' . get_bloginfo();
    }
    return $title;
}

Yoast SEO has know problems with buddypress.
Another trick: https://bp-tricks.com/coding/making-buddypress-compatible-with-the-wordpress-seo-plugin-from-yoast/

[touren]

thank you!! this worked!

Do you have a clue how I can get Buddypress activity posts in meta title more SEO friendly

I would like to have an individual title and meta description for each activity post.
How can I get an excerpt of the first 6 words of the activity post as title and also as meta description (in best case also the first 6 words comma separated as meta keywords)
I refer to posts like this http://seventhqueen.com/themes/kleo/members/demo/activity/90874/ – in the title and meta should then appear “let see the the view”

pls. can somebody help me to get this work!!

[rikbutterflyskull]

Use the BuddyPress Support or wordpress.stackexchange.com for this things. It’s not a easy task what you want to do

[eric75]

This seems to be the solution:

https://buddydev.com/buddypress/making-wordpress-seo-plugin-compatible-with-buddypress-part-2/

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