[Support request] How To Add Post Meta Title, Meta Description and Keywords

[Bozlur]

Hi,
I don’t use any SEO Plugins like Yoast or Rankmath. So, without using seo plugins, how can I add Add custom Post Meta Title, Meta Description and Keywords for each post in GP Premium.

[Elvin]

Hi there,

You can try these.
https://wpdatatables.com/how-to-add-meta-tags-in-wordpress-without-a-plugin/
https://gretathemes.com/seo-add-meta-tags-without-plugins/

While they’re not GeneratePress specific, it shouldn’t matter anyway as the functions are WordPress core.

It’s a bit tedious. That’s why most users use plugins for this. 🙂

[Bozlur]

Hi Elvin,
Thank you for your reply. Let me clear my question so that you can understand that its GeneratePress specific. There was hook/section elements in GP. So Is it possible to add Add Post Meta Title, Meta Description and Keywords in every post with hooks? If yes then how?

[David]

Hi there,

you can convert either of the codes provided in the posts that Elvin provided.
Heres one of those codes.

function gretathemes_meta_description() {

    global $post;

    if ( is_singular() ) {

        $des_post = strip_tags( $post->post_content );

        $des_post = strip_shortcodes( $post->post_content );

        $des_post = str_replace( array("\n", "\r", "\t"), ' ', $des_post );

        $des_post = mb_substr( $des_post, 0, 300, 'utf8' );

        echo '<meta name="description" content="' . $des_post . '" />' . "\n";

    }

    if ( is_home() ) {

        echo '<meta name="description" content="' . get_bloginfo( "description" ) . '" />' . "\n";

    }

    if ( is_category() ) {

        $des_cat = strip_tags(category_description());

        echo '<meta name="description" content="' . $des_cat . '" />' . "\n";

    }

}

add_action( 'wp_head', 'gretathemes_meta_description');

The code is using the add_action function to hook in the custom function into the wp_head. thats not required as the Hook Element does that.

You would use a Hook Element > wp_head instead.

Then stripping out the code from the function.
The code uses conditonal tags such as if ( is_singular() ) { for displaying the Meta Description, this is not required as this would be the Display Rule Locations.

You would use Display Rules Location: All Singular for that condition.

This leaves you with this code to add to your Hook which will add the Meta Description:

<?php
global $post;
$des_post = strip_tags( $post->post_content );
$des_post = strip_shortcodes( $post->post_content );
$des_post = str_replace( array("\n", "\r", "\t"), ' ', $des_post );
$des_post = mb_substr( $des_post, 0, 300, 'utf8' );
echo '<meta name="description" content="' . $des_post . '" />' . "\n";
?>

Note the global $post; will be required in the subsequent meta functions. And all must be wrapped in <?php ?> tags.
And in the Hook settings you must check Execute PHP.

You would need to create a separate hook for each of the different if conditions in that code.

For Keywords – well there isn’t a meta field for those in WP – so you would need to create Custom Fields for those and use the get_post_meta() to grab that data.

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/

Hope that helps.

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