[Casey]

Hey! Thank you again for your help. Very impressed with this system to ask for help, and your great replies.

Question 1:
If you go here:
http://marketingtradeschool.com/directory
You’ll see the text “Below is a comprehensive list of those who have taken a Certification course lead by Marketing Trade School.” I like that there. But, when you click an individual and go to, say:
http://marketingtradeschool.com/directory/name/elizabeth-arganbright
The text remains there. Is there a way to not show this text on the individuals?

Question 2:
Can I change the title tag of the /name/ pages to reflect the individuals name? This would be very important for SEO.
Example URL: http://marketingtradeschool.com/directory/name/elizabeth-arganbright
Title currently is: Certified Marketers
Ideal title: Firstname Lastname — Certified Marketer

Thank you for the help, Steven!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Casey

1. I’m sure you’ve noticed, Connections uses a single WP page for all it its pages. So, there are only two ways to do that presently. Not have the text at all or use a two page setup for Connections. here’s how to do the two page setup. Create a new page, let call it “Results” on this new page put only the [connections] shortcode for the page content. Take not of the page ID in the address bar, you’ll need that. Edit the page that the current shortcode is on and add this home_id=x, where x equals the page ID from the “Results” page. No all links in Connections will point to the “Results” which shows nothing but what Connections renders.

2. By default Connections does change the page title and page meta title as well as uses an excerpt of the bio field on the single entry page for SEO purposes. On your site, those option are either disabled or something is overriding them. You can find those options on the Connections : Settings admin page under the SEO tab.

If the options are enabled, I see you have WordPress SEO install, it is likely overriding the values Connections uses. Did you enter anything in the page SEO metaboxes when you setup the page? If you did, try emptying those values. My thought is, if those fields are empty WordPress SEO will use the values set by Connections.

Just noticed, the meta description is being set with the excerpt of the entry bio, so WordPress SEO is likely overriding Connections.

Hope that helps!

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