including Geo meta tags in BeTheme

mfkroon · February 2016

Hi Guys,

Is there a way to include Geo meta tags in the <head> section without changing a source file?

Bing and Yahoo use this information to locate a business (in my case a Hotel and Restaurant)

Regards,

Michel

Albert · February 2016

Hi,

without changing source files, it is not possible.

Thanks!

mfkroon · February 2016

Hi,

To implement the geo tags means I have to use the child-theme in order to avoid losing the code after an update?

Maybe in a future release you can implement a "Hook" that executes after the opening the <head> tag?

Regards,

btw theme and support rocks!

mfkroon · February 2016

Hi,

Solved my geo meta tag question, wordpress provides a hook to the head:

1. installed child theme

2. changed functions.php in child theme by adding the following at the end of the file:

add_action('wp_head', 'geo_tags_function');
function geo_tags_function() {
echo ' HTML tags go here ';
}

Regards

Albert · February 2016

We got the hooks under Theme options > Global > Hooks section. And this is the only place where you can put some custom code.

Anyway, we are glad to see that you sorted it with a child theme files.

mfkroon · February 2016

The hooks I've seen, however there is no hook that leads to the <head> section, and that was my suggestion to implement this in future releases.

StubbornCreative · August 2017

Still no hook that leads to the head section?

Bryan · August 2017

No sorry, there is no possibility.

Human_Interfaces · August 2018

I would appreciate some help in adding geo meta tags. We are using a BeTheme child theme but mfkroon's instructions went over my newbie head. Is someone able to walk me through the process, step-by-step? Thank you!

Pablo · August 2018

Theme options > Global > Hooks section

This is the only place where you can put some custom code

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What do you exacly want to know about this?

Thanks.

Human_Interfaces · September 2018

Thank you, Pablo. I thought geo meta tags needed to go in the <head> section, however, as mfkroon mentioned, there still is no hook that leads to the <head> section. Therefore, my question is, where exactly should I be placing the geo tags OR mfkroon's code shown above?

When I use the editor to open the header.php file for our child template, I see the following code in the meta section (shown below). Could I possibly place a do_action shown in red below? Thank you in advance!

<?php

if( mfn_opts_get('responsive') ){

if( mfn_opts_get('responsive-zoom') ){

echo '<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">';

} else {

echo '<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">';

}

?>

<?php do_action('wp_seo'); ?>

<?php do_action('geo_tags_function');

function geo_tags_function() {

echo '<meta name="geo.region" content="XXX" />';

echo '<meta name="geo.placename" content="XXX" />';

echo '<meta name="geo.position" content="XXX" />';

echo '<meta name="ICBM" content="XXX" />';

}

?>

<?php if( mfn_opts_get('apple-touch-icon') ): ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Human_Interfaces · September 2018

Follow up comment to the one above:

I couldn't get the action to work, so I removed it completely and used the echo function only. Works now. What would be the advantage to using a do_action (or add_action) call?

Pablo · September 2018

add_action/do_action is a function for wordpress with execute funtions hooked on specific action hook.

It's just launching the script you made.

Thanks

including Geo meta tags in BeTheme

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