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Andy Harvey
Andy Harvey

Reputation: 12663

How to disable Yoast SEO adding article:author meta tags to pages

The excellent Yoast SEO plugin is adding some unwanted meta tags.

For example, I would like article:author to appear on posts, but not on pages or other content types.

Is there a way to adjust this globally?

I'm happy to edit functions.php, but I'm just unsure what I should be hooking in to.

I would be grateful for any pointers from those more familiar with the plugin.

I tried this:

function wpseo_show_article_author_only_on_posts() {
  if ( !is_single() ) {
    return false;
  }
}
add_filter( 'xxxxxx', 'wpseo_show_article_author_only_on_posts' );

I need to know what hook should replace xxxxxx.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5640

Answers (2)

Vasco
Vasco

Reputation: 911

If people are looking for a way to remove more yoast SEO tags, just lookup the file wordpress-seo/frontend/class-opengraph.php, and you can see which filters you can hook into to remove certain tags.

This is the code I use to remove these tags from pages: url, image, title, description and type:

function remove_yoast_og_tags( $ogTag ){
    // Do a check of which type of post you want to remove the tags from
    if ( is_page() ) {
        return false;
    }
    return $ogTag;
}


$yoastTags = array(
    "url",
    "image",
    "title",
    "desc",
    "type"
);
foreach ($yoastTags as $tag) {
    add_filter( 'wpseo_opengraph_'.$tag, 'remove_yoast_og_tags');
}

Upvotes: 1

Kirk Beard
Kirk Beard

Reputation: 9843

You're looking for the wpseo_opengraph_author_facebook filter, which ties into the article_author_facebook() method in frontend/class-opengraph.php of the plugin.

function wpseo_show_article_author_only_on_posts( $facebook ) {
    if ( ! is_single() ) {
        return false;
    }
    return $facebook;
}
add_filter( 'wpseo_opengraph_author_facebook', 'wpseo_show_article_author_only_on_posts', 10, 1 );

The article_author_facebook() method does a check for is_singular(), which checks that we're viewing single page, post or attachment:

This conditional tag checks if a singular post is being displayed, which is the case when one of the following returns true: is_single(), is_page() or is_attachment(). If the $post_types parameter is specified, the function will additionally check if the query is for one of the post types specified.

The additional filter for ( ! is_single() ) ensures that article:author is only added to posts.

Upvotes: 3

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