Entry title not being used for SEO page title

[andrewhawkes]

Description

In the settings I have the default settings to use the entry title and site name:

When creating a new entry, the title does not get used from the entry:

I noticed this started happening after upgrading from v5.0.0-rc1

Steps to reproduce

1. Add a new entry which has the SEO field
2. The title of the entry is not used in the SEO title

Additional info

• Craft version:
• SEO version: v5.0.0-rc2
• PHP version: 8.2.15
• Database driver & version: MySQL 8.0.33
• Other Plugins:

[scoch5]

Hi,
i have the same problem!

[pascalminator]

Can confirm I have the same exact problem on two different sites running Craft 5.

[jasonlav]

Changing it to {{ title }} to match {{ siteName }} does not appear to resolve the issue. Nor does {{ entry.title }}.

[jasonlav]

After further investigation, it appears there are multiple issues contributing to the problem.

1. The _getVariables method in SeoData.php only adds custom fields to the $variables array that compiles the title template. Adding the following snippet appends all native attributes of the entry to the $variables array.

foreach ($this->_element->attributes() as $attribute) {
  $variables[$attribute] = $this->_element->{$attribute};
}

However, it probably isn't the best practice to do this since there could easily be naming conflicts. Rather, it would be better to add element as a new attribute of the $variables array. The title token would then be {{ element.title }}.

if (!array_key_exists('element', $variables) && $this->_element)
  $variables['element'] = $this->_element;

2. The _renderObjectTemplate method in SeoData.php doesn't appear to be accepting the variables passed in. I ended up changing:

$str = Craft::$app->view->renderObjectTemplate($template, $object);

To:

$str = Craft::$app->view->renderObjectTemplate($template, [], $object);

In my testing these changes work. However, I'm not familiar enough with Craft's Element model and renderObjectTemplate to recommend this solution, otherwise I would submit a pull request. Perhaps the maintainer of the plugin can weigh in.

[pascalminator]

This problem is fixed now with v5.0.0-rc3. Thank you @Tam

[ryanfoote]

I think I have this same issue with v4.2.2 of the plugin. Has anyone else running the same version run into this error?

[andrewhawkes]

Not sure if this is part of the same issue - but if you have a title that contains a | or - only the text after those characters is used for the {title}

I.e. if the title of an entry is ABC | 123 the meta title will be 123