Duplicate page titles on recurring events

[Henry]

Hi guys

Just added my first recurring event. I now have 3 events in the calendar which are exactly the same aside from different dates. Is there a way to customise the page title for each? Perhaps append the date to the end of the title to make the title unique?

Hopefully I am doing something wrong and there is an easy solution

Thanks in advance.

[Jonah]

Hey Henry,

Sure, are you looking to append to the title on the calendar itself or in the tooltip popup? I assume you’ll also want the title modification to show anywhere else the event appears? Basically anywhere in the event templates where you see get_the_title() or the_title() is where you’ll want to append the event date with tribe_get_start_date()

[Henry]

Hi Jonah!

Thanks for getting back. It is actually the ‘page title’ that I wanted to change, i’m not too bothered about the ‘h1 heading’. I know how Google like to have unique content across a website and i’m just worried about adding a recurring event that takes place every week for a year. That’s 52 duplicate page titles in Google’s eyes.

Not sure how to get around this one?

[Jonah]

Hey Henry,

Right, so the title tag that appears in the browser tabs. To modify this you’ll either need to filter where wp_title() is called or just modify it in your header.php file in your theme to conditionally check if you are on a recurring event and if you are, append a date. Make sense?

[Henry]

Ah yes of course. The conditional check would do it. Any idea how I could check if it is a recurring event page? I’m going to go check the documentation now…

[Jonah]

Hey Henry, strange it looks like it’s not in the documentation – I’ll fix that. It’s: tribe_is_recurring_event()

[Henry]

Ah thanks Jonah, nice one.

[Jonah]

You’re welcome Henry, let me know if you need any other assistance with this one.

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