[Resolved] SEO Meta Descriptions Missing on Duplicates

Hi Bobby,

Thanks for the response. Ah yes that is not a great example as the US version has been taken down. Sorry about that.

Interesting yes we do also maintain other languages so the copy_once is not a great solution.

I did also find that independent translation solves it. In our case the CA translation will almost always be an exact copy of US, it would be a lot less work to have duplicates auto synchronize. I am a developer so a little custom function could do the trick.

What about something like so?

Hi Bobby,

I have come up with a solution. Though I'd share it with you.

Solved sync'ing the yoast meta on master post updates like so:

//WPML - Sync Meta on Master Update
add_action( 'updated_post_meta', 'wpml_duplicate_sync_update', 999, 4);
function wpml_duplicate_sync_update($meta_id, $post_id, $meta_key, $meta_value) {
//Meta Key Whitelist
if($meta_key != '_yoast_wpseo_metadesc') {return;}
//Copy To My WPML Duplicates
$myDuplicates = apply_filters('wpml_post_duplicates', $post_id);
foreach($myDuplicates as $lang => $dup_post_id){
update_post_meta($dup_post_id, '_yoast_wpseo_metadesc', $meta_value);
}
}

Then ran into an issue where yoast indexing would not fire during wpml duplicate creation when the post meta is updated even though it is supposed to be listening.

This is the solution I came up with:

//WPML - Sync Yoast Index on Duplicate Creation
add_action( 'icl_make_duplicate', 'wpml_duplicate_sync_insert', 999, 4);
function wpml_duplicate_sync_insert($master_post_id, $lang, $post_array, $id) {
duplicate_yoast_index($master_post_id,$id);
}

//Duplicate Yoast Index
function duplicate_yoast_index($src_id, $dest_id){
global $wpdb;
$SQL = "UPDATE
{$wpdb->prefix}yoast_indexable AS dest,
(
SELECT
*
FROM
{$wpdb->prefix}yoast_indexable
WHERE
object_id = %d
) AS src
SET
dest.title = src.title,
dest.description = src.description
WHERE
dest.object_id = %d
";
$wpdb->query($wpdb->prepare($SQL,$src_id, $dest_id));
}

Hope that helps and can make its way into WPML. I'm sure others could benefit.