Adding SEO to any/all events pages

[katecooteltd]

Hi,
It seems that all pages relating to events have no SEO other than the event title. Whereas my non events pages and posts display my Genesis SEO. Is there a simple way to add content or is there a tick box somewhere that when checked will pull in the event content?

[Barry]

Hi – great question!

Since some views don’t live as posts in the database there is no particular way to achieve this. Often though themes and SEO-specific plugins provide a range of hooks that let you workaround situations like this and set titles, descriptions etc even if it’s impossible to do so via the post/page editor.

Unfortunately I can’t guide you through the process for achieving this with Genesis, but we do have a range of helper functions that you can use to help detect what sort of page you are on that could be useful here:

• tribe_is_month()
• tribe_is_photo()
• tribe_is_week()
• tribe_is_day()
• …etc… more in the tech docs!

Does that help?

[katecooteltd]

Actually, no it doesn’t. The reason I chose your events plugin was because it was just that – it’s a plugin. I am not a php coder, nor do I have the resources to unravel your code and work out how I can add such fundamentals as event title, descriptions etc. SEO underpins all successful websites and to omit that with your product is a profound shortfall. Although I have become familiar with the Events Pro setup, should I be engaged to design another event website, the lack of out-of-the-box SEO will effect my choice of any event plugin I select for future clients.

[Barry]

Hi katecooleltd,

I definitely appreciate your viewpoint and certainly understand your frustration.

From our perspective, though, there are numerous SEO plugins and a huge number of themes with built-in SEO facilities out there – and they all work differently.

Whether you are using a separate plugin for SEO or the facilities that ship with your theme – as you are – it’s worth remembering that they too are bolting on something extra that WordPress doesn’t do by itself and so there is no common standard here, despite the fact that SEO generally may be seen as something which underpins many successful websites (as you pointed out).

The reality is, it simply isn’t practical to support every permutation that’s out there and when you bring two systems together some amount of work is often needed to integrate them.

We definitely appreciate your feedback here though and remain open to any feature requests you might post and encourage you to upvote/show your support to any suitable existing requests.

Thanks again 🙂

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