Add custom taxonomy to title tag

Question

I'm using Yoast's WordPress SEO plugin for a variety of websites. In setting title tag templates with his %%category%% syntax, I've figured out that you can reference custom fields by using %%cf_<custom_field_name>%%.

What I haven't been able to figure out is how to reference custom taxonomies. Within a custom post type, I have a category that I want to reference (i.e. customcategory). If I try adding %%customcategory%%, it doesn't work. Does anyone know if this is possible with the WordPress SEO plugin or point me in the right direction if I need to add a function to work with the plugin?

Answer 1

You can set a filter for the title element’s content – hook 'wp_title' – and add any data you want to it. See this answer for an example.

On archives use get_queried_object() to detected the taxonomy, on singular views (posts, pages, custom post types) the global $post is available.