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On a singular post/page, normally in The Loop
the_title()
returns
post_title
; if, however, this needs to be overridden so that a
custom content heading is displayed (i.e. for SEO purposes), then an
h1
or
h2
element may be supplied at the beginning of
the
post_content
and the contents of this heading element
will be returned by
the_title()
instead of
post_title
.
From a technical perspective, the site title in the main header should be
an
h1
element and the page/post title should in an
h2
element within an
article
,
per HTML5:
Sections may contain headings of any rank, but authors are strongly
encouraged to either use only h1
elements, or to use elements of the
appropriate rank for the section's nesting level.
This is seen in the default WordPress theme and the HTML specifications. However,
SEO places higher priority on the contents of an
h1
element, so if
every page of a site has the exact same
h1
contents (the site name),
then search engines may not be as likely to rank the page based on the unique
contents of the
h2
. It has been
suggested
therefore that the
h1
and the
h2
elements be swapped,
so that the site title appears in an
h2
and so that the unique page
title appears in the
h1
. While the specifications don't prefer this
arrangement, it is not incorrect, also per HTML5:
Both of the documents are semantically identical and would produce the same
outline in compliant user agents.
So if different heading levels are semantically equivalent, and if search
engines really place that much importance on
h1
, then SEO wins.
In both cases, content section headings should be coded with
h3
and
below.
Technical note: If the
$post
object is not passed into
the_title
filter, then the page's
the_title()
must be called before every other
the_title()
call
in_the_loop()