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Opened 11 months ago

Last modified 11 months ago

#6570 new enhancement

Add full function reference to og:title meta head for code reference pages

Reported by: aurovrata's profile aurovrata Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Component: Developer Hub Keywords: close 2nd-opinion
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Description

Currently a search on Google for a code reference such as a 'get_meta_post' returns the code reference page for that function, which has the its og:title meta head set to,

get_post_meta() | Function | WordPress Developer Resources

It would be very useful to add the full function reference,

get_post_meta( int $post_id, string $key = "", bool $single = false ): mixed | Function | WordPress Developer Resources

as it would enable a quick reference without having to actually open the page.

I find myself forgetting some function variables, or their order, and having this information right there in the Google search results would be very handy.

Change History (2)

#1 @dd32
11 months ago

  • Keywords close 2nd-opinion added

Unfortunately titles displayed in search engines are limited in characters, you can kind of see this in action if you search Google for WP_REST_Application_Passwords_Controller where you'll find that it discards the actual <title> & og:title and goes for the <h1> instead.

The description shown is also character limited, ~130char as in the example of register_block_script_handle, which if the function syntax was added, would leave little room for an actual human-readable description (and I honestly believe Search Engines would internally decide that code isn't human readable, so isn't a good result, and so would source it from elsewhere on the page, like the above <h1> example).

I don't really see this as being a viable change.

This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #meta by tellyworth. View the logs.


11 months ago

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