Duplicate Page Titles in bbPress Pagination Causing Indexing Issues

Hello,

We apologize for the issue you are facing with duplicate page titles in your bbPress pagination. This can indeed lead to indexing issues and affect your SEO performance.

To resolve this, you can customize the title tags for paginated pages in bbPress by using a filter in your theme’s functions.php file. Here’s a general approach you can take:

1. Add a Custom Function: You can add a function that modifies the title for paginated pages. Here’s an example code snippet:

   add_filter('bbp_get_topic_title', 'custom_bbp_topic_title', 10, 2);
   function custom_bbp_topic_title($title, $topic_id) {
      if (is_paged()) {
          $paged = get_query_var('paged');
          $title .= ' – Page ' . $paged;
      }
      return $title;
   }

   This code checks if the current page is paginated and appends the page number to the title.

2. Use Rank Math: If you are using Rank Math, you can also manage your titles and meta descriptions effectively. Navigate to Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta → Forums and customize the title format for your forum pages. You can use variables like %page% to include the page number automatically.

3. NoIndex Paginated Pages: If you find that paginated pages are not providing significant value, consider setting them to noindex. You can do this in Rank Math by going to Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta → Misc. Pages and enabling the Noindex Paginated Single Pages option.

For more detailed guidance on managing titles and meta tags, you can refer to the Rank Math documentation.

If you need further assistance or a more comprehensive setup, we recommend our professional setup service available at Rank Math Services. This service ensures your plugin setup is fully correct and adheres to the latest SEO standards.

Thank you for raising this concern! If you have any more questions or need further clarification, feel free to reply to this ticket, and a human agent will assist you further.

Sources:
Rank Math ‘Titles and Meta’ Options and Settings

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math support.

You need to add the variable %page% to the title for the concerned post type. This variable is used to display the current page number. It will not display any number for non-paginated pages.

We hope this helps. Please let us know if you have further questions or concerns.

Thank you.

Hello,

You can add the %page% variable in Rank Math > Titles & Meta settings:

Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
 
Thank you.

Hello,

In this case, we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.

Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.

It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/

You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

We really look forward to helping you.