How to over-ride meta data in Wordpress

[jamesthemonkeh]

Hello

I’m new to Wordpress/PHP - I think this question should be in here as it is PHP I need to write, but please forgive me if I am wrong.

I currently have a Wordpress website using Squirrly for SEO. However, on archive pages, it is using descriptions/titles from the first content page that belongs to the archive page.

So for example, on my accommodation archive page, that lists all the hotels, the title is “Hotel 1”, and the description is “Hotel 1 is a beautiful…”. They should instead be referencing the title “List of Accommodation”, and description “These are all the hotels…”.

I am trying to write an over-ride for this - I did find one for Yoast SEO listed here - http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/61472/using-php-to-overwrite-or-replace-title-tag-while-using-yoast/61523#61523?newreg=a3496de25de941a7bb16089b1912653b but this is not working, assumedly because wpseo_title is a filter specific to Yoast.

My current code is:

<?php get_header();
    if ( is_archive() ) {
        add_filter('wpseo_metadesc', 'filter_product_wpseo_metadesc');
            function filter_product_wpseo_metadesc($wpseo_metadesc) {
                if(  is_singular( 'product') ) {
                    $wpseo_metadesc = "This is a big test of stuff";
                }
                return $wpseo_metadesc;
            }
} ?>

Does anyone know a filter, or something similar, that would over-ride the SEO for my archive pages, either specific to Squirrly SEO, or one which would work in general?

Thanks
James

[James0979]

If you are using WordPress then the best option for you to optimize the pages for SEO is to use Yoast or All in One SEo plugins. Both plugins supports the sitewide option to index or de-index any specific page as per your request. If you want to go beyond that and over ride your Meta titles you should go for NOODP or NOYDR tags to your script which simple override any specific page meta to the one you want to set.

NOODP: Simply means No other discription
NOYDR: means no other Directory discription.