Unable to add Yoast SEO title and description to CRED Form

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Problem: I would like to manage two Yoast fields with Forms, but I am unable to add them to the Form successfully.

Solution: Make sure you have saved at least one post with some value in both fields. Then you should be able manage those fields with Toolset Forms.

Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/letting-cred-edit-custom-fields-created-by-other-plugins/

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Last updated by stefanoT-2 5 years, 10 months ago.

Assisted by: Christian Cox.

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January 17, 2019 at 5:55 pm #1186100

stefanoT-2

I am trying to: add the "Yoast SEO Title" field and the "Yoast SEO Description" field in my cred form.

I expected to see: a textfield for the SEO Title and a textarea for the SEO Description.

Instead, I got: two errors.

"There was an error with the field _yoast_wpseo_title. Check the CRED Form"
"There was an error with the field _yoast_wpseo_metadesc. Check the CRED Form"

These are the shortcodes that I use to create the fields:

[cred_field field='_yoast_wpseo_title' post='product' value='' urlparam='' placeholder='Titolo SEO']
[cred_field field='_yoast_wpseo_metadesc' post='product' value='' urlparam='' placeholder='Description SEO']

I've copied these two shortcodes from another site that I own where the two fields shows correctly.

The site where the fields work is not up-to-date, these are the plugins' versions:
Yoast: 9.1
Types: 3.0.4
CRED (Forms): 2.0.2.1

Instead, the site where the fields DO NOT work is up-to-date:
Yoast: 9.4
Types: 3.2.4
CRED (Forms): 2.2.1.1

Why is working on the "old" site but not in the new one??

January 17, 2019 at 7:24 pm #1186172

Christian Cox

Hi, have you configured these fields to be managed by Toolset Forms? See some information about that process in our documentation here: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/letting-cred-edit-custom-fields-created-by-other-plugins/

January 18, 2019 at 8:26 am #1186593

stefanoT-2

I tried, but I cannot find those fields. There are only two other yoast fields, "_yoast_wpseo_primary_hashtag" and "_yoast_wpseo_primary_product_cat". They are also missing in the "old" website where the fields work.

January 20, 2019 at 2:47 pm #1187660

Christian Cox

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I just ran a couple of tests locally and this seems to be working for me.
1. Are you sure you have saved at least one post in the new site with the Yoast SEO title and meta description fields populated? See the attached screenshot.

2. Are you certain the Yoast fields are not hidden by pagination on the "Manage non-Toolset Post Fields with Toolset Forms" page?

If the answer to both questions is "yes", then I'll be glad to take a closer look.

January 21, 2019 at 2:59 pm #1188228

stefanoT-2

Doing "1" solved my problem, the fields appear in the "Manage non-Toolset Post Fields" page and I added them as single line for title and multiple lines for description.

I think that the fact that you need to save a custom field to make it show up in the "Manage non-Toolset Post Fields" page should be written somewhere in the documentation, or maybe it has already been done and I missed it.

Thanks for the support!