ZX:rishistar programming blocks » meta tags http://rishistar.com/zx Java/Wordpress programming tips and tricks Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:23:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Making your page Meta Tag the post title in WordPress http://rishistar.com/zx/2010/05/making-your-page-meta-tag-the-post-title-in-wordpress/ http://rishistar.com/zx/2010/05/making-your-page-meta-tag-the-post-title-in-wordpress/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 15:17:30 +0000 rishi http://rishistar.com/zx/2010/05/making-your-page-meta-tag-the-post-title-in-wordpress/ The META tag can be used to provide additional information to search engines. Google doesn’t use meta tags directly to increase page rank but a helpful description can be useful in deciding what gets used as a page summary on another site, making something thats more appealing to the user than whatever bit of the page is displayed along with a link.

You can include this in WordPress using the following in the header.php file in your template.

<meta name="description" content="<?php the_title() ; ?> " />

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