SEO not working for event tag

Hi Marc,

The Event Manager tags aren’t registered as tags on the front-end; instead, they embody a page query. On top of that, that plugin creates its own query with special arcane magic.

This means the event tags are decoupled from the WordPress Query API, and TSF (or any other plugin…) can’t interact with them as intended.

There are ongoing issues with SEO plugins and the Events Manager plugin; they all stem from custom queries which the SEO plugins don’t recognize. Unfortunately, this means ongoing custom development needs to take place to work around this until they fix it. I’m not able to account for this, as it’s a full-time job on its own given the complexity and rapid development of both our plugins.

I’m sorry I can’t provide a workable solution. But, I hope you understand the issues.

My suggestion to the Events Manager developers: Forward the custom queries to mimic the ones in WordPress. For reference, this is what bbPress also does.

Hi Sybre,

Too bad there’s no solution, I’ll just stop using tag pages for now. I opened a ticket with the team at Events Manager.

Best,
Marc

The solution suggested by Events Manager is:

Create a file on your theme called “taxonomy-event-tags.php” Then for the file contents, You could copy what your theme uses for taxonomy templates. By default WordPress uses the “archive.php” file to display the category or taxonomy pages. Your theme might have a custom file to display those so you could just copy the content of that file to the “taxonomy-event-tags.php” that you created.

I put that file in my child theme and copied the content from archive.php from my main theme. I did the same thing with taxonomy-event-categories.php because categories had the same issues. And now the SEO settings I put on tags and categories using The SEO Framework are working just fine.