WordPress: How to Display the Parent Page Title in Your Title Meta Tag

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June 24, 2008

In a project I’m working on at the moment, The page structure is set up using 5 main pages, and then each have their respective sub-pages. For SEO purposes, I wanted my <title> meta tag to display the page title and it’s parent page title if the current page was a child page, i.e.:

<title>Page Title</title> or <title>Parent Page Title — Page Title</title>

So after doing a little searching and combining some code, this is what I came up with:

<title><?php
if($post->post_parent) {
$parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
echo $parent_title;
?> &#8212; <?php } ?>
<?php wp_title(''); ?>
</title>

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10 COMMENTS

  1. Web Designer Kent  //  July 21, 2008 at 10:48 pm

    Ive been working on CSS based sites for sometime but still get the odd error in firefox ! wish they just played ball the same when designing, would make life a whole lot easier for everyone involved… but then that would be to simple and obvious…lol

  2. Evan  //  July 11, 2009 at 9:47 am

    Thanks! This helped.

  3. Josef  //  September 24, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    thanks! been looking for a way to display the page parent title.

  4. neel  //  October 21, 2009 at 8:18 am

    Thanks for this cool tip.. it helps me when i create tabs of subpages from a parent page.

  5. Ion  //  October 29, 2009 at 12:37 pm

    Thanks! exactly what was looking for

  6. Adam  //  November 30, 2009 at 12:24 pm

    Magic, thankyou :)

  7. niki  //  January 10, 2010 at 9:31 pm

    where do I put the code? I’m also a little confused with each post I do. Am I going to have to change this code everytime I make a new child page.

  8. Tammy Hart  //  January 11, 2010 at 11:13 pm

    This should go in the header.php template between the tags.

  9. Paris Vega  //  August 19, 2010 at 1:30 pm

    Tammy to the rescue, again!

    This also works nice if you need to display the title on the page itself between heading tags.

    By the way this post is #1 in Google for “wordpress display name of parent page”

 

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