GD Core Plugin – Titles & Metas

These are the sections you will find when you install the GeoDirectory Core (free) plugin only:

Overview – General – Google Analytics – Design – Permalinks – Titles & Metas – Notifications – Set Default Location – Place Settings – Theme Compatibility – Import & Export – GD Tools

On this page:

Introduction – Available variables – Using title & meta variables in widget titles

Introduction

1. This image shows where to find the Titles & Metas settings:
   
2. These settings allow you to change the meta title
   
   and the meta description (Meta descriptions are commonly used on search engine result pages (SERPs) to display preview snippets for a webpage):
   
3. If you use the Yoast SEO plugin, the settings added to GD > Titles & Metas will not work, you will need to use the settings of the Yoast SEO plugin.

Available variables

All meta titles and meta descriptions can use the following variables:

%%title%%	Title of a listing. Do not use for listings pages.
%%sitename%%	Your site name as entered at WP Settings > General Settings > Site Title.
%%sitedesc%%	Your site description as entered at WP Settings > General Settings > Tagline.
%%excerpt%%	This refers to the WP excerpt you can add to listings, posts and pages.
%%pt_single%%	The singular form of a Custom Post Type, for example Place or Event.
%%pt_plural%%	The plural form of a Custom Post Type, for example Places or Events.
%%category%%	Indeed, the category.
%%id%%	The ID of the page or listing.
%%sep%%	Separator between parts.
%%location%%	Location in this format: city, region, country.
%%in_location%%	Location with a prefix of your choice in this format: in city, region, country. You can translate in in the core language file.
%%location_single%%	Location referring to the location of the page itself, for example Madrid, or Japan.
%%in_location_single%%	Location referring to the location of the page itself, with a prefix of your choice, for example in Los Angeles, or in Argentina. You can translate in in the core language file.
%%search_term%%	Whatever was entered as a search term (for search pages only).
%%search_near%%	Location entered in the Near field of the GD Search (for search pages only).
%%name%%	Name of the user (for author pages only).
%%page%%	Title of a WP page.
%%pagenumber%%
%%pagetotal%%

Using title & meta variables in widget titles

1. To enable the use the above variables in the titles of GD widgets, add this code to your child theme’s functions.php file, or use the Code Snippets plugin:

   [php]// Use title and meta variables in widget titles.
   function gd_widget_title( $title ) {
   if ( !empty( $title ) ) {
   $title = geodir_filter_title_variables( $title, ‘location’, ” );
   }

   return $title;
   }
   add_filter( ‘widget_title’, ‘gd_widget_title’, 10, 1 );
   add_filter( ‘bestof_widget_title’, ‘gd_widget_title’, 10, 1 );
   add_filter( ‘gd_features_widget_title’, ‘gd_widget_title’, 10, 1 );
   add_filter( ‘geodir_cpt_categories_widget_title’, ‘gd_widget_title’, 10, 1 );
   add_filter( ‘geodir_popular_location_widget_title’, ‘gd_widget_title’, 10, 1 );
   add_filter( ‘geodir_location_description_widget_title’, ‘gd_widget_title’, 10, 1 );
   add_filter( ‘geodir_location_neighbourhood_widget_title’, ‘gd_widget_title’, 10, 1 );[/php]

2. You can now add as a title to one of the above widgets, for example:
   
3. And this would be the result for one of the location pages: