As brilliant as I think WordPress is I do feel that there are a few features that do need to be addressed. One of the big areas of SEO that I feel WordPress lacks is the simple ability to use custom H tags (H1, H2 etc…). The H1 tag is arguably a very big part of SEO when it comes to inserting keywords into a web page so surely it makes sense to be able to choose what the tag itself says.
With the help of the custom fields however there is an easy way:
Find: (in your page.php for example)
<?php the_title(); ?>
And replace with:
<h1><?php $thisPost = $post -> ID; if (get_post_meta($thisPost, changeH1, true) !=null)
{ echo (get_post_meta($thisPost, changeH1, true)); }
else { the_title(); }
?></h1>
Next open up the page where you would like the custom header and in the ‘Custom Fields’ section enter the following details:
Name: changeH1
Value: Whatever you want!
Et voilà, you can now have any H1 that you need. This is very useful for SEO reasons … Trust me!
