WordPress: Get Yoast SEO title for custom taxonomy

Question

I'm trying to get the SEO title from a custom taxonomy.

Here's my current code for it:

$my_yoast_wpseo_title = get_term_meta( $term_id, '_wpseo_title', true );
if( $my_yoast_wpseo_title ){
    echo $my_yoast_wpseo_title;
} else {
    echo 'No title';
}

It doesn't work.

So I tried different meta keys like _yoast_wpseo_title and everything I could find in their docs and other snippets.

Nothing works.

So I checked the complete output of get_term_meta. Like this:

$my_yoast_wpseo_title = get_term_meta( $term_id );
print_r($my_yoast_wpseo_title);

It shows a lot of meta fields. But the Yoast meta isn't stored there?! Is their any other place?

The taxonomy has a custom SEO title and shows it in the frontend.

Answer 1

The Yoast SEO Titles for Terms are stored in the options table.

This will at least give you the idea you're after.

$options = get_option( 'wpseo_taxonomy_meta' );
// $options will be an array of taxonomies where the taxonomy name is the array key.
$term_id = get_queried_object_id();
foreach ( $options['your_term_here'] as $id => $option ) {
    if ( $term_id === $id ) {
        /* This returns an array with the following keys
            'wpseo_title'
            'wpseo_focuskw'
            'wpseo_linkdex'
        */      
        echo ( ! empty( $option['wpseo_title'] ) ) ? $option['wpseo_title'] : 'no title';
    }
}