I have a bunch of custom meta boxes, I'd like to have the values of these meta boxes added to the search when someone uses my search form. Is it possible to do this?
For example, I have a credit meta box. When someone searches for "Spielberg" I'd like the Jurassic Park page to show up.
Try the following links. Thanks
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/35864/how-to-make-search-include-data-from-wp-postmeta
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I am currently experiencing a problem with my google results. My meta description has been changed to characters I know nothing about for no reason. Normally here was the description that is on my home page, but that is suddenly gone. (see the screenshot for clarification).
I've tried a lot of things to adjust the meta description, but unfortunately I can't figure it out and this is a bad image for my company.
It concerns the website www.webrange.nl that I built with wordpress. Does anyone have any tips or maybe a way to solve this? So that the description returns to normal.
I have changed the description in the head of the website:
All-in webdevelopment
And also changed it with a seo plugin, and in the theme it self.
Description displayed on google results can be different from the meta description of your website for multiples reasons.
Google crawlers doesn't crawl websites everytime, there may be a delay of few hours to few days between your meta description modification and the moment when google update the description displayed on search results.
As we can see and your page, the meta description seems correct. It 's possible that you already fixed your problem but you'll have to wait for Google to update it on their side.
You can check google search console to force a new indexation of your page, or (re)send your xml sitemap. It can accelerate the process.
Also, keep in mind that Google can use an excerpt of your page content instead of your meta description if Google decides that the excerpt he found on your page is more relevant than your meta description, depending on keyword searched by the user. Example : You have a page talking about cars, and the user search for "engine" in google. If your meta description does not contain the word "engine" but your page content has a text containing it, there is high probability that Google display a description with an excerpt of that content instead of your meta description. It can be confusing
I have a website which uses WordPress. In Google Search Results, when you search for a post, the title of the link to the post is displayed as:
Name-of-the-post | Site Title - Site address
For example, the same is on the picture below:
However, I want it to be
Name-of-the-post | Site Title
Like here:
Initially, for Site title I used the address of the website and the result was:
Name-of-the-post | Site address
However, when I added a different title for the site (from WordPress admin panel), I ended up with the text of the link as in the first picture.
I also have Yoast Seo Plugin installed, but I do not find any settings there related to Google Search results.
Is this something I can change, or is it up to Google to generate these titles?
Google replaces your title.
For it may be different reasons.
Google write about it:
If we’ve detected that a particular result has one of the above issues
with its title, we may try to generate an improved title from anchors,
on-page text, or other sources. However, sometimes even pages with
well-formulated, concise, descriptive titles will end up with
different titles in our search results to better indicate their
relevance to the query. There’s a simple reason for this: the title
tag as specified by a webmaster is limited to being static, fixed
regardless of the query. Once we know the user’s query, we can often
find alternative text from a page that better explains why that result
is relevant. Using this alternative text as a title helps the user,
and it also can help your site. Users are scanning for their query
terms or other signs of relevance in the results, and a title that is
tailored for the query can increase the chances that they will click
through.
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35624
Try add this meta tag to page:
<meta name="robots" content="noodp"/>
IO just want to show my additional page link like this Google search page result. How to do that easily. I'm using WordPress.
Here is the image link that i need to do. http://i.stack.imgur.com/Yyn8g.jpg
Thank's in advance!
There are 2 types of sitelinks that show up in SERPs: the one you showed and an expanded view. The one that you showed is generated by google and cannot be influenced easily.
Heres a 2009 Post about it:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/04/one-line-sitelinks.html
And here is a discussion on MOZ about it:
https://moz.com/community/q/has-anyone-found-a-way-to-get-site-links-in-the-serps
Title pretty much says it all. I'd like a post to appear at the top of every search results page.
Google and their support forums turned up nothing.
Any pro's on here want to shed some light if its possible or not?
One method would be to include a custom field on your posts that would be a checkbox that allows you to mark a post as sticky. Then, in your search.php file, you could write a wp_query that would retrieve the sticky posts (http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Custom_Field_Parameters).
Then after that is displayed, include your search results loop. So you're calling your sticky posts prior to displaying any of your search results.
I have a little question. I am making a wordpress template that uses custom page templates. Now i ran into a problem. I want to create a page with a intro text and blog posts that come from a certain category. When a user creates a new page, I want them to be able to select the category from witch the posts are shown. Kinda like a drop down box with category's from where they can select the category they want. Does anyone maby knows a tutorial where I could learn how to do this ?
I mean something like this: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/10/naamloosea.jpg/
I already searched google but I could only find tutorials on how to make a template options page.
Thanks in advance,
Bob
You would want to create a Meta Box to save the category as a custom field entry within Pages. In here you could list the categories within a select box. You could then use this in the page template to pull in the posts from that category as you wish. I'll see if I can dig out a decent tutorial for this.
I did a quick search and found the following plugin for WordPress that may be of use... http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/map-categories-to-pages/