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Page Meta

By Steve

Content Management / Blog & Article Publishing

Page Meta Review - In-Depth Analysis

Customize page meta titles, descriptions, and keywords easily. Supports various post types.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.87/10

User Rating

3.3/5 (based on 3+ reviews)

Active Installations

700+

Update Frequency

Below Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

1 / 10 (Very Low Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

This plugin uses custom fields to allow the page title tag to be customised and differ from the actual page title.

Both meta descriptions and keywords can also be added if required.

Page meta details can be modified on any publicly accessible post type, such as posts and pages, as well as custom post types.

Theme and plugin developers should note that it is possible to override the page title within your templates by setting $wppm_title = 'Newly defined title'; before the call to get_header();.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Page Meta plugin.

Page meta

Meta descriptions

SEO

Screenshots

FAQ

The field names used are _pagemeta_title, _pagemeta_description and _pagemeta_keywords.

The underscore prefix prevents it from being displayed in the list of custom fields.

If a custom title is set for a post type, the plugin will automatically hook into the wp_title function to modify the output.

This uses the parameters passed via wp_title and will completely override the title.

You can customise the output further using the pagemeta_title filter, which uses the same parameters plus the original post title value.

In this example we prefix the original title to the custom title.

add_filter( 'pagemeta_title', function( $title, $sep, $seplocation, $original_title ) {     return $original_title . $title; }, 10, 4 );

Please refer to the Codex for further information on the add_filter.

Yes, as of version 1.5 you can modify which fields are used using the pagemeta_fields filter:

add_filter( 'pagemeta_fields', function( $fields ) {     $fields['author'] = 'Author'; // Add a new field.     unset( $fields['keywords'] ); // Remove a default field.     return $fields; } );

The default fields are ‘title’, ‘description’ and ‘keywords’.

The page meta values can be output within posts using the [postmeta] shortcode.

Passing through a name attribute will determine which value is returned, for example to output the description value use the following.

[postmeta name="description"]

Name values are determined by the fields set, by default these are ‘title’, ‘description’ and ‘keywords’.

To output meta values in template files, you can make use of the_pagemeta function.

<?php if ( function_exists( 'the_pagemeta' ) ) { the_pagemeta( 'description' ); } ?>

This will output the value, in order to return the value or lookup a specific post ID you can use get_the_pagemeta.

<?php if ( function_exists( 'get_the_pagemeta' ) ) {      $description = get_the_pagemeta( 'description' ); } ?>  <?php if ( function_exists( 'get_the_pagemeta' ) ) {     $description = get_the_pagemeta(         'description', // Page meta value name         123 // Post ID to lookup     ); } ?>

Not that these functions will return the raw values prior to any output manipulation.