Fixing my wordpress title tags, revisited

One of the most popular posts on my blog is my guide to fixing the wordpress title tags. It’s enjoyed a great run so far, but as of today has become obsolete. Well, for myself anyway.

Via Wordpress SEO I discovered the HeadSpace plugin. HeadSpace allows you to specify a custom title format for all wordpress page types. It does lots of other cool stuff with metadata, like:

• auto-suggesting tags
• mass-editing metadata, including title, description, slugs (urls), and tags/keywords
• adding a custom title or description per post
• adding custom css of javascript files depending on the page type or on a per-post basis

Previously I had other plugins to do some of those things so it’s nice to have it all in one. I was a little concerned about bloat or annoying interface extras but I don’t find that to be a problem (yet). Here’s a screenshot of the title tag settings page:

HeadSpace works with modules that you can add to your write page, either hidden behind a link or always appearing. It’s basically an all-in-one metadata customizer and editor.

Here’s a screenshot of how this is implemented on the “write” page:

More screenshots are available from the HeadSpace site.

Customization on title tags could also be done with the SEO Title plugin. This one works a little differently by allowing you to add a custom title tag for individual posts and pages. I don’t think it can change the default format of titles but I haven’t installed it so I’m not sure about that.

If these solutions seem like overkill to you, my old title tag code may work just fine.

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