Alter title for paginated multi-page posts(add Page 2 etc)

[Sonicview]

When I write a post with multiple pages via the <!--nextpage--> tag all of the resulting pages share the same <title>. I would like to add the page number to the end of the title so that they are not all completely the same. My GWT is reporting duplicate titles because they are all the same.

If a paginated post has the title "this is a post title" and I go to page two I want the title to become "this is a post title - Page 2" etc. Can anyone suggest how I can modify the title via my functions file? I'm using Metro-pro but I don't think it matter which theme. Thanks.

[Sonicview]

Maybe I wasn't clear? I need to eliminate duplicate titles from paginated <!-- nextpage --> posts. Is there a way to add "Page 2", "page 3" etc to the end of the site title on paginated posts ?

[Graham]

You would have to add a filter to genesis_post_title_text that checks the value of the $page variable.

e.g.

add_filter ('genesis_post_title_text', 'child_maybe_filter_title' );
function child_maybe_filter_title( $title ) {
	global $page;
	if( $page > 1 ) {
		$title .= ' (Page ' . $page . ')';
	}
	return $title;
}

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[Graham]

Ah sorry, missed the part about GWT (Google Webmaster Tools) ... that will be to do with rel=canonical

So probably a SEO plugin / settings option ?

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[Sonicview]

Nope, it's not a canonical issue, I don't want all paginated content pointing to page one via a canonical tag. The problem is that there seems to be no way to add "Page 2" etc to a multi-page post. The title on every page is the same. The options allow me to add the site name but there is no way to perform a conditional check for paged content from there.

Your function should work, but doesn't for some reason. This is in the genesis header for my site

'function genesis_do_title() {
	echo '<title>';
	wp_title( '');
	echo '</title>';
}'

and it's called on and modified by

function genesis_default_title( $title, $sep, $seplocation ) {

	global $wp_query;

	if ( is_feed() )
		return trim( $title ); ETC....

Here is the part specific to single pages, which I assume would be where to append the page number on multi-page posts?

//* if viewing a post / page / attachment
	
	if ( is_singular() ) {
		//* The User Defined Title (Genesis)
		if ( genesis_get_custom_field( '_genesis_title' ) )
			$title = genesis_get_custom_field( '_genesis_title' );

I've tried turning off all plugins and turning on/off all SEO settings within Genesis and no go. It's not a cache issue either, the site doesn't run cache and I cleared browser cache on both computers I'm testing with. I feel so close yet... this is the most recent version of genesis btw and I run the metro-pro theme which shouldn't matter. Thanks for helping, this is driving me nuts.

[Sonicview]

Ugh, wait, your function DID work but only at changing the titles on the page, not in the browser tab (HTML wp_head area). I'm lost as to why it would change the title for H1 on page but not the title in the browser tab ?? any other suggestions??

[Graham]

Yes, sorry ... my function was only aimed at changing the titles on the page. I missed the part about GWT (Google Webmaster Tools) in your post.

As genesis_default_title() only allows the user to set a custom title on a per-page or per-post basis - and is not further filterable, I feel you would have to remove that filter from wp_title() and then roll your own function.

remove_filter('wp_title', 'genesis_default_title', 10, 3);
add_filter('wp_title', 'child_default_title', 10, 3);
function child_default_title(  $title, $sep, $seplocation  ){
  // etc
}

Seems like a lot of work and begs the question .. if you wish to have separate SEO titles for each section and not rel canonical , then I suspect you would need separate meta descriptions as well.. (otherwise GWT will moan about there being duplicate meta descriptions) - -- so why not post each section as a separate blog post and just link to the other related posts in the content?

I'm happy to be educated here.

No further suggestions, sorry.

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[Sonicview]

Adding the following delimited section to genesis/lib/structure/header.php works

function genesis_default_title( $title, $sep, $seplocation ) {

	global $wp_query;

	if ( is_feed() )
		return trim( $title );
// attach page number to paginated pages... 
	<strong>global $page;	
	if( $page > 1 ) {
		$title .= ' (Page  ' . $page . ')';
	}
// done attaching

But is that safe and is there a function file equivalent so that I don't have to hard code it?

[Graham]

If you wished, you could remove that filter from wp_title() and add your own as indicated above:

remove_filter('wp_title', 'genesis_default_title', 10, 3);
add_filter ('wp_title','child_default_title', 10, 3);
function child_default_title( $title, $sep, $seplocation ) {
	global $wp_query;
	global $page;	
	if( $page > 1 ) {
		$title .= ' (Page  ' . $page . ')';
	}
	// etc
	return esc_html( trim( $title ) );
}

Or perhaps (?), disable the Genesis SEO entirely and use something like Yoast SEO which I believe gives the option to no-index subpages and add a %%page%% variable to the template.

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[Sonicview]

We posted at the same time, sorry

if you wish to have separate SEO titles for each section and not rel canonical , then I suspect you would need separate meta descriptions as well.. (otherwise GWT will moan about there being duplicate meta descriptions)

I don't include descriptions on paged content, only on the first page, because in the absense of a description tag Google grabs text from the page which is fine with me(for now, I have bigger wordpress issues to tackle). Google also announced that you should not use rel-canonical to point to the first part of any series of pages UNLESS they are highly identical. They expanded on that in a few places and were very clear that it should not be used in that manner, nor should you place a noindex tag on page 2 onwards. If you use the rel next and rel prev tags Google will know it's a series and so noindex and rel canonical to page 1 are not needed.

Anyway, I seem to have a larger problem. While the fix I posted above does work for my purposes I realized that it ONLY works because the plugin having troubles is pulling the info independently of the genesis loop, It does grab the information from genesis but it does not work anywhere else using the_permalink, not even in a twitter button, they all point to the first page.

In fact I can't even use the_permalink or get_permalink anywhere as these do NOT grab the page number for me right now. Is genesis altering or moving the_permalink function somewhere ?

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