Title template doesn’t work for non–hierarchical taxonomies in editor

[brit77]

Under Titles & Meta settings, I've set Title template for one of my custom post types, using the %%ct_%% variable.

which should read something like "Chapter 13 - French for Reading Knowledge" in the snippet title.

Instead, what I see in the snippet editor after the plugin update is: "Chapter 13 - %%ct_course%%"

In the front end, the title appears to be displaying correctly with the title template rendered properly:

so the problem seems to be just with the snippet title display of the template in the editor screen (not with the title template itself) -- not a critical bug but can be disconcerting for clients...and I assume is not intentional!

Thanks for looking into this!

[Rarst]

Adding to 3.5 milestone, as I closed later issue in it as duplicate of.

[omarreiss]

3.5 comes too early. @Rarst if you want to have a go, be my guest. Otherwise, we'll do our best to include this in 3.7.

[Rarst]

Too JS for me. As per comment I only added to 3.5 because instance of same issue already was in it.

[monbauza]

The same issue happens with template variables for WooCommerce custom fields and taxonomies, i.e. %%cf__regular_price%%

WordPress 4.6.1
Yoast SEO 3.8
WooCommerce 2.6.8

[monbauza]

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[zandergrin]

Is this still an issue? I'm seeing it on my site with info from ACF custom fields.

[jan1980]

Issue persists on Yoast 3.2.4 (current last version) and WordPress 4.3.6 (somehow dated, as we are in 4.7 at the moment) - but not always! Oftentimes the custom field gets properly parsed and appears fine in the preview, then in other posts (same post type) the custom field appears un-parsed between the %% signs. I am at a loss... Would updating WP help? Any help is appreciated!

[monbauza]

This issue is still relevant. The plugin outputs the template variables correctly in the source code but the snippet editor just shows the placeholders.

WordPress 4.8.2
Yoast SEO 5.5
WooCommerce 3.1.2

[monbauza]

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[suascat]

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[rmarcano]

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[mariusghitulescu]

I was able to replicate this with WordPress 5.0.1 and Yoast SEO 9.2.1. I tested this with a custom post type (review), custom taxonomy (review_category) and a custom field (rating).

The custom field gets replaced with its value correctly in the snippet editor. The custom taxonomy does not show in the snippet editor.

SEO title: %%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%ct_review_category%% %%sep%% Rated:%%cf_rating%%/5

The generated title is Yoast review - Plugins - Rated:5/5, as expected.

[monbauza]

The problem also occurs in the meta description (I tested the %%tag%% and %%ct_product_tag%% variables in Yoast SEO v14.6.1). See screenshot below.

[monbauza]

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