Posted by: @Anonymous

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so I made this fix and hope I did it correctly.

I'll follow this post.

I also use Rank Math. The plugin automatically disables most of its features when using wpForo.

To avoid incompatibilities with wpForo (which has its own SEO settings).

Rank Math only seems useful for the WordPress pages section.

For articles, wpForo is used.

Your idea is appreciated because Rank Math is truly specialized for SEO.

Hi, I'm using Rank Math Pro and after some testing, I'm finally using this function on my production site now. Let me know if you spot anything that doesn't look right! Thanks.

// Meta description and title for wpForo pages including topics

function wpforo_get_clean_description($type = 'topic') {
    if (!function_exists('is_wpforo_page') || !is_wpforo_page() || !function_exists('WPF')) {
        return '';
    }

    $content = '';

    // Topic page
    if ($type === 'topic' && !empty(WPF()->current_object['topic']['first_postid'])) {
        $post = WPF()->post->get_post(WPF()->current_object['topic']['first_postid']);
        if (!empty($post['body'])) {
            $content = $post['body'];
        }
    } 
    // Forum page
    elseif ($type === 'forum' && !empty(WPF()->current_object['forum']['description'])) {
        $content = WPF()->current_object['forum']['description'];
    }

    if (empty($content)) return '';

    // Clean content
    $content = wp_strip_all_tags($content);
    $content = strip_shortcodes($content);
    $content = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $content);
    $content = trim($content);

    // Trim to ~158 characters
    if (strlen($content) > 158) {
        $content = substr($content, 0, 155);
        $content = substr($content, 0, strrpos($content, ' ')) . '...';
    }

    return $content;
}

// Rank Math meta description filter
add_filter('rank_math/frontend/description', function($description) {
    $topic_desc = wpforo_get_clean_description('topic');
    if (!empty($topic_desc)) return $topic_desc;

    $forum_desc = wpforo_get_clean_description('forum');
    if (!empty($forum_desc)) return $forum_desc;

    return $description;
});

// Rank Math Open Graph description filter
add_filter('rank_math/opengraph/description', function($description) {
    $topic_desc = wpforo_get_clean_description('topic');
    if (!empty($topic_desc)) return $topic_desc;

    $forum_desc = wpforo_get_clean_description('forum');
    if (!empty($forum_desc)) return $forum_desc;

    return $description;
});

// Fix Rank Math meta title for wpForo
add_filter('rank_math/frontend/title', function($title) {
    if (function_exists('is_wpforo_page') && is_wpforo_page() && function_exists('WPF')) {
        // For topics
        if (!empty(WPF()->current_object['topic']['title'])) {
            return WPF()->current_object['topic']['title'] . ' - ' . get_bloginfo('name');
        }
        // For forums
        elseif (!empty(WPF()->current_object['forum']['title'])) {
            return WPF()->current_object['forum']['title'] . ' - ' . get_bloginfo('name');
        }
    }
    return $title;
});