Trying to add post relationship into Yoast SEO title

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Last updated by Christian Cox 5 years, 8 months ago.

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March 6, 2019 at 10:01 pm #1210903

chrisC-25

I have artist posts and record release posts. There is a relationship established. When looking at a record by an artist I want the seo title to say "Record Title by Artist Name".

I have tried this in Yoast:
%%[wpv-post-title item="@artist-release.parent"]%% . to no avil.

Example here:
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Thanks

March 7, 2019 at 2:37 pm #1211360

Christian Cox

Yoast SEO does not accept 3rd-party shortcodes in their template variables, but they do allow you to create your own custom template variables with PHP. Their documentation is here: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/yoast-wordpress-seo-titles-metas-template-variables/

There is an example of a custom variable here:
https://gist.github.com/amboutwe/550c10ede7d065d9264930f5480ca748#file-yoast_seo_title_custom-variable-php

We offer the post relationships API, which helps you access information from related posts:
https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/post-relationships-api/

And another ticket here in the forum with another example:
https://toolset.com/forums/topic/meta-descriptions-excerpts-from-views-content/#post-1128477

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