Wordpress Post Titles different than post headline?

[rgordon83]

Is there a way to make the title of the post page (the main headline) different than the actual name of the post title?

For example, i want to have the post titled Nice Shoes so in the sidebar under recent posts it shows with that title, but on the actual post page i want it to say Nice Shoes For Ugly Women.

Is this possible? Perhaps something with custom fields?

 

[AngryAffiliate]

WordPress › Greg's High Performance SEO WordPress Plugins

Has pretty good documentation on how to tweak your template to use the custom fields the plugin provides.

 

[dchuk]

edit your single.php template file to not output the post title in the page (it's usually an h2, and it will look like <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2> inside the loop. Then, in your actual post, put in your h1 with the text you want displayed for your heading.

Then you can use all in one seo or something similar to customized your meta title. If you do all of that, you can have different page titles, urls, and h1 headings

 

[droplister]

I usually use a custom field

Function Reference/get post meta WordPress Codex

And then in the template make the page <title> wp_title and the h1 the post_meta with a php statement to check if it is set and if not use wp_title.

 

[rgordon83]

WordPress › Greg's High Performance SEO WordPress Plugins

Has pretty good documentation on how to tweak your template to use the custom fields the plugin provides.

+ rep this is exactly what i need. thanks! amazing plugin

 

[moltar]

All in one SEO plugin does all that without editing anything

 

[AngryAffiliate]

All in one SEO plugin does all that without editing anything

All in one SEO is bloated and poorly written (like wp and most plugins). Greg's HP SEO is much better code.

You don't have to edit your theme with Greg's HP SEO, there's a setting to brute force it just like AIO SEO does, but why make a memory hog more of a memory hog?

 

[moltar]

All in one SEO is bloated and poorly written (like wp and most plugins). Greg's HP SEO is much better code.

You don't have to edit your theme with Greg's HP SEO, there's a setting to brute force it just like AIO SEO does, but why make a memory hog more of a memory hog?

Word. Good to know. Never tried this plugin. Will try on the next install.