Wordpress Pods and Wordpress SEO by Yoast

[Highlandgael]

Hi

I am optimising a new site that has been built in Wordpress using Pods.  The Yoast Wordpress SEO plugin is not recognising any content on the site - has anyone any ideas on how to get around this - does it matter - is it the plugin that is at fault rahter than the set up of the site?

[ReferralCandy]

Hi there,

I've not actually used Pods with Wordpress, but from the plugin description, it seems like the plugin create custom post types for you. I believe Yoast Wordpress SEO plugin works mostly for sites using the default posts and pages, which is why the plugin did not pick up the custom post types that you are using. In this case, you will have have to look into other SEO plugins or actually doing your own optimisation.

[Ron_McCabe]

HI,

I took a few minutes and looked at several sites where we are running Yoast (our preferred plug in) and PODS.  None of these sites are having the problem you outlined. I took a few more minutes to see if there were any special settings on either plug in. There were not.

So my best guess is that your problem is coming from somewhere else.

[Highlandgael]

thanks for your response, this was along the lines of my thinking and i was about to try a different plugin - until i read the response below.  will update any findings

[Highlandgael]

thanks for taking the time to look into this.  the tags are fine in Yoast but it is reporting no content on the site.  i can see the content in html on the page source but am worried that if Yoast crawls the site in the same way that the search engines do, then it is going to cache without any content - even when i add content into the content widget it is not picked up by Yoast - very strange...

[Highlandgael]

After quick tweeting session with Joost de Valk @yoast this is the answer:

yeah that doesn’t work (posting content in widgets), known issue. We’re working on adding a filter to the post content that PODS could hook into.

Once again, many thanks for responding

Gail

[Ron_McCabe]

Gail,

That makes sense.  I looked again and the developer did add a custom plug in for the web site as a whole.  My guess is that he went in and fixed this problem with this custom plug in and that is why it works.  I would ask him for more detail but he is off line for a week in the backwoods of Montana.

If this is not resolved before the 28th ping me and I will ask him for more detail. These are both solid plug ins. It is crazy they do not work together natively.