Optimize Title Tag

[joaquin]

I posted this question in the PLRPro forum too but it seems I get answers quicker here.

I want to make sure I don't do things that are not required as it may mess up my word press site. I think that is what happened to me before.
On Page 139 of the VRE handbook it says the following:

Optimizing Your Title Tag In addition, you would probably want to optimize your title tags so that your post title appears in the title tag. For this, you‟ll have to muck about in the header.php file – the simple way to do this is to navigate to the current theme folder on your web server (in the wp-content/themes/ area) and copy the header.php file on to your PC. There, make a backup of the file (in case you need to restore it later on), open it in a text editor or an html editor and locate the following tags:
<title> </title> Once you find that block of code, delete it and replace it with this code: <title> <?php if(is_home()) { bloginfo('title'); } else{ wp_title(''); echo ' » '; bloginfo('name'); } ?> </title>

So is this necessary or is this already done if you use the PLRPro WordPress installer???

Thanks In Advance


Joaquin Kenyon

[cobwab]

Originally Posted by joaquin

I posted this question in the PLRPro forum too but it seems I get answers quicker here.

I want to make sure I don't do things that are not required as it may mess up my word press site. I think that is what happened to me before.
On Page 139 of the VRE handbook it says the following:

Optimizing Your Title Tag In addition, you would probably want to optimize your title tags so that your post title appears in the title tag. For this, you‟ll have to muck about in the header.php file – the simple way to do this is to navigate to the current theme folder on your web server (in the wp-content/themes/ area) and copy the header.php file on to your PC. There, make a backup of the file (in case you need to restore it later on), open it in a text editor or an html editor and locate the following tags:
<title> </title> Once you find that block of code, delete it and replace it with this code: <title> <?php if(is_home()) { bloginfo('title'); } else{ wp_title(''); echo ' » '; bloginfo('name'); } ?> </title>

So is this necessary or is this already done if you use the PLRPro WordPress installer???

Thanks In Advance


Joaquin Kenyon

Hi Joaquin,

I just checked my header.php file

<title><?php optimal_title(); ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>

So the installer does not change the code to what you mentioned. As you can see there is no conditional statement checking whether you are in the home page or not.

optimal_title() is a plugin that is already installed in your plugin directory. I quote from the plugin dir: "Mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the ’separator’ to after the title rather than before."

Read all about it here: 10 Things You Must Do When Changing WordPress Themes

Bottom line: Don't mess with it.

[joaquin]

Originally Posted by cobwab

Hi Joaquin,

I just checked my header.php file

<title><?php optimal_title(); ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>

So the installer does not change the code to what you mentioned. As you can see there is no conditional statement checking whether you are in the home page or not.

optimal_title() is a plugin that is already installed in your plugin directory. I quote from the plugin dir: "Mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the ’separator’ to after the title rather than before."

Read all about it here: 10 Things You Must Do When Changing WordPress Themes

Bottom line: Don't mess with it.

Thank you Cobwab. I do appreciate the information. I'm quite sure some of the information written in the PLRPro manuals no longer apply as we have so many plugins and such with the Word Press installer.
I won't change it.

Joaquin