Blog seo template problems

Oh, of course.

So is there a better way to load up the header seo as I am not loading the posts which is obviously what perch_blog_custom() is for?

Also this is obviously what is stopping things like the category title from displaying as it is based on posts, not archives etc?

Sorry, I have been out most of the day but what about for the archive and author pages as filtering for a post won't work then?

No, as per the code in my original post (using a category archive as an example) I want to output the name of the category.

i.e. Someone clicks on the category Business to view all posts in that category and I want to be able to populate the page title and og:title with the category name

Oh, right, thank you - I obviously missed that code somewhere :)

Sorry, but this is still not what I need.

I want to be able to use <perch:blog id="categoryTitle" /> and <perch:blog id="categorySlug" />in the html header template for the category archive page.

But there is just one of those if I am on a category archive page which is what I am talking about

Whoops, sorry Drew. I have now sorted this by doing something different (one being, I remembered that the slug is passed in the url so I could just use perch_get('cat') to 'get' it :) ).

If anyone is interested, below is how I have resolved my header issues:

On the archive.php page I create an array of variables to pass through to a specific archive header:

   $header_array = array();

if (perch_get('cat')) {
    $header_array['archive_type'] = 'topic';
    $header_array['archive_name'] = perch_blog_category(perch_get('cat'), true);
    $header_array['archive_slug'] = perch_get('cat');
} elseif (perch_get('tag')) {
    $header_array['archive_type'] = 'tag';
    $header_array['archive_name'] = perch_blog_tag(perch_get('tag'), true);
    $header_array['archive_slug'] = perch_get('tag');
} elseif (perch_get('author')) {
    $header_array['archive_type'] = 'author';
    $header_array['archive_name'] = perch_blog_author(perch_get('author'), true);
    $header_array['archive_slug'] = perch_get('author');
}

perch_layout('blog.archive.header', $header_array);

Then in the blog.archive.header.php, I assign the passed data to new variables for echoing out as required:

    $archive_type = perch_layout_var('archive_type', true);
$archive_name = perch_layout_var('archive_name', true);
$archive_slug = perch_layout_var('archive_slug', true);

    <title><?php echo $archive_name; ?> Archives - The Web Bakery Blog</title>
    <link rel='canonical' href="https://thewebbakery/blog/<?php echo $archive_type; ?>/<?php echo $archive_slug; ?>">

As for the post pages, I load perch_layout('blog.article.header'); as normal and use a combination of perch functions and my own PHP to get the data about the article that I want to display:

    $dynamic = perch_blog_post_field(perch_get('s'), 'postDynamicFields', true);
$data = json_decode($dynamic, true);

$meta_description = $data['metaDesc']['raw'];
$image = $data['image'];

$author = perch_blog_author_for_post(perch_get('s'), array('skip-template' => true));

    <title><?php perch_blog_post_field(perch_get('s'), 'postTitle'); ?></title>
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo $meta_description; ?>">
<link rel='canonical' href="https://thewebbakery.co.uk/blog/article/<?php perch_blog_post_field(perch_get('s'), 'postSlug'); ?>">
    <meta property="og:image" content="https://thewebbakery.co.uk/manage/resources/blog-images<?php echo $image['path']; ?>">
    <meta name="twitter:creator" content="@<?php echo $author['authorTwitter']; ?>"/>

That looks useful. Thanks for posting it.

Clive Walker said:

That looks useful. Thanks for posting it.

No problem, always like to help if I can and find a solution to a problem that others may also be having :) Obviously I haven't put all of the meta tags and information on here but hopefully you get the idea.