Missing meta data on The Events Calendar taxonomy pages

[josevarghese]

Issue moved from Jira: https://yoast.atlassian.net/browse/IM-1349 Reporter: @amboutwe

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Please give us a description of what happened

The Events Calendar provides a custom taxonomy called 'Event Categories'. The Yoast SEO meta data does not use the default templates for title or description. Therefore, the metadata (Open Graph, Twitter, schema) is not generated correctly.

Workaround Add custom title and description in the metabox for each category. This should fix almost all of the incorrect data. The title tag remains wrong even with a custom title in the metabox. The schema may need additional code (example).

Related https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/17006 https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/16664 https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-update-title-tags-in-yoast/ https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/1362

To Reproduce

Step-by-step reproduction instructions

Starting with a vanilla installation:

1. Install and activate The Events Calendar
2. Go to Admin > Events > Event Categories
3. Add two parent categories called 'Default' and 'Metabox' (naming will help later)
4. Install and activate Yoast SEO (free)
5. View the event category page source for both categories. Notice that the page has no description and the title is Upcoming Events %%sep%% %%sitename%%
6. Go to Admin > Yoast SEO > Settings > Categories & Tags
7. Expand 'Event Categories (tribe_events_cat)' and add or change the templates so both fields have a custom default.
8. View the event category page source for both categories. Notice that the description and title are unchanged; i.e. ignoring the default option.
9. Edit the 'Metabox' category and add a custom post-level title and description for the category.
10. View the event category page source for 'Metabox'. Notice that the empty description warning is replaced with the post-level description, but the title remains unchanged (wrong).

Expected results

Title, meta description, social and schema would be correct.

Actual results

Parts are missing which cascades to more missing data.

Impact Everyone that uses The Events Calendar and Yoast SEO. Causes errors in GSC (missing name in schema). Causes unexpected information to appear in SERPs.

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Technical info

• If relevant, which editor is affected (or editors):
• [ ] Block Editor
• [ ] Gutenberg Editor
• [ ] Elementor Editor
• [ ] Classic Editor
• [ ] Other:

• Which browser is affected (or browsers):
• [ ] Chrome
• [ ] Firefox
• [ ] Safari
• [ ] Other:

Used versions

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• PHP version:
• WordPress version: 6.2
• WordPress Theme:
• Yoast SEO version: 20.7
• Gutenberg plugin version:
• Elementor plugin version:
• Classic Editor plugin version:
• Relevant plugins in case of a bug: The Events plugin: 6.0.13

[josevarghese]

Comment: @monbauza (Ramon Bauza) September 27, 2021 at 2:40 PM

When investigating this, I noticed that the Term title variable isn't output in the source code when using the workaround for meta descriptions.

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