[Enhancement] Provide template variable for sub parent child page titles

[Pcosta88]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

If a user nests a page under two other pages

There is not a template variable here https://kb.yoast.com/kb/yoast-wordpress-seo-titles-metas-template-variables/ to output the sub parent page.

It only has %%parent_title%% which outputs the parent's title not all the sub page titles

add parent title variable

Only the first child's title gets outputted not original the parent page title

Describe the solution you'd like

Provide template variable for sub parent child page titles

why you think the feature request is something we should consider for the Yoast SEO plugins?

Improve Content SEO

[moorscode]

The relation between parents and children should be implied by using the Breadcrumbs (and JSON+LD included in them) instead of doing it by copy that matches a title from a parent (or higher up).

I'm not sure what added value Parent title is giving and if it is suggesting something we don't recommend. @jono-alderson what's your take on that?

[jonoalderson]

Hmm. Struggling to come up with a use case for this. Got an example?

[Pcosta88]

@jono-alderson No use case other than it provides options for how the user wants to customize and optimize a title.

[jonoalderson]

I follow, but I can't think of examples of where anyone would want to do this. Do you have some examples in mind?

[Pcosta88]

@jono-alderson I do not have a specific example but rather a hypothetical.

Say I am a lawn care business and I have nested pages:

• Main: Services
• Child 1: Trimming
• Child 2: Residential

Say I have also done my keyword research and turns out folks are looking for Residential Trimming Services in Google. I want my Child Page 2, to rank for that.

BUT I want a different title to appear when a user visits the Child 2 page. This means I will need to manually edit the SEO Title in Yoast.

If I had the right variables I could output: Residential Trimming Services as the title automatically instead of going back into the page to make the changes manually.

[jonoalderson]

That feels very nuanced, and like it'll cause errors/issues more often that it'd produce a sensible title. In this case, I think it makes more sense for people just to edit/set those titles manually.