BuddyPress Metas & Title using xprofile field data

Populating the BuddyPress user Profile page’s title, meta description, and meta keywords with some of the user-generated content, delivered via xprofile fields, seems so much better than the default options, or even what’s available in seopress, the only current BuddyPress SEO plugin.

While we’re at it, setting the on-page SEO data for Activities based on the content is a great move too.

You’ll have to modify the fields based on the data you have available, and what fields feed into which page data, but this code, placed in your theme’s functions.php file, is a good start.
Want to make a plugin based on this code for the lay-men? Feel free.

Note: extractCommonWords function based on the function here.

function bp_xprofile_title($title=null, $without_site_name=null){
	global $bp, $current_blog;

	if(defined('BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG')){
		$blog_title=get_blog_option($current_blog->blog_id,'blogname');
	}else {
		$blog_title=get_blog_option(BP_ROOT_BLOG,'blogname');
	}

	if(bp_is_user_profile()){
		$title_array = array();
		if($data = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Company Name', $bp->displayed_user->id))
			$title_array[] = "$data ({$bp->displayed_user->fullname})";
		if($data = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Business Overview', $bp->displayed_user->id))
			$title_array[] = $data;
		$title_array[] = $blog_title;
		$title = mb_strimwidth(strip_tags( esc_attr( implode( ' | ', $title_array))), 0, 70, '...');
	}
	if (bp_is_activity_component() && is_numeric( $bp->current_action )) {
		$activity = bp_activity_get_specific( array( 'activity_ids' => $bp->current_action ) );
		if ( $activity = $activity['activities'][0])
			if(!empty($activity->content))
				$title = mb_strimwidth(preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9\s\s+\-]/", "", strip_tags( $activity->content)), 0, 70-3-3-strlen($blog_title), '...') . " | $blog_title";
	}
	return $title;
}
add_filter('bp_page_title', 'bp_xprofile_title',0);

function extractCommonWords($string){
	$stopWords = array('i','a','about','an','and','are','as','at','be','by','com','de','en','for','from','how','in','is','it','la','of','on','or','that','the','this','to','was','what','when','where','who','will','with','und','the','www');
    
	$string = strip_tags($string);
	$string = trim($string); // trim the string
	$string = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s\s+\-]/', '', $string); // only take alphanumerical characters, but keep the spaces and dashes too…
	$string = strtolower($string); // make it lowercase
    
	preg_match_all('/\b.*?\b/i', $string, $matchWords);
	$matchWords = $matchWords[0];
       
	foreach ( $matchWords as $key=>$item ) {
		if ( $item == '' || in_array(strtolower($item), $stopWords) || strlen($item) <= 3 ) {
			unset($matchWords[$key]);
		}
	}   
	$wordCountArr = array();
	if ( is_array($matchWords) ) {
		foreach ( $matchWords as $key => $val ) {
			$val = strtolower($val);
			if ( isset($wordCountArr[$val]) ) {
				$wordCountArr[$val]++;
			} else {
				$wordCountArr[$val] = 1;
			}
		}
	}
	arsort($wordCountArr);
	$wordCountArr = array_slice($wordCountArr, 0, 10);
	return array_keys($wordCountArr);
}

function bp_xprofile_meta()
{
	global $bp;

	if(bp_is_user_profile()){
		$array = array();
		if($data = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Business Category', $bp->displayed_user->id))
			$array[] = htmlspecialchars_decode($data);
		if($data = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Years of Experience', $bp->displayed_user->id))
			$array[] = "$data years experience";
		if($data = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Location', $bp->displayed_user->id))
			$array[] = $data;
		if($data = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Business Overview', $bp->displayed_user->id))
			$array[] = $data;

		$desc = mb_strimwidth(preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9\s\s+\-&]/", "", strip_tags( implode( ' - ', $array))), 0, 150, '...');

		echo '<meta name="description" content="'.$desc.'" />';

		if($data = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Profile Details', $bp->displayed_user->id))
			$array[] = $data;
		if($data = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Company Name', $bp->displayed_user->id))
			$array[] = $data;
		$array[] = $bp->displayed_user->fullname;

		$key_text = preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9\s\s+\-]/", "", strip_tags( implode( ' ', $array)));
		$keys = extractCommonWords($key_text);
		echo '<meta name="keywords" content="'.implode(',', $keys).'" />';
	}

	if (bp_is_activity_component() && is_numeric( $bp->current_action )) {
		$activity = bp_activity_get_specific( array( 'activity_ids' => $bp->current_action ) );
		if ( $activity = $activity['activities'][0])
			if(!empty($activity->content)){
				$content = preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9\s\s+\-]/", "", strip_tags( $activity->content));
				echo '<meta name="description" content="'. mb_strimwidth($content, 0, 150, '...').'" />';
	
				$keys = extractCommonWords($content);
				echo '<meta name="keywords" content="'.implode(',', $keys).'" />';
			}
	}
}
add_action('wp_head', 'bp_xprofile_meta',1);

WordPress Network store in an instant!

I’m getting really excited to use WPMU‘s MarketPress e-commerce plugin on the new JobShuk website.

As I wrote in this Tweet to the guy behind WordPress’ most popular e-commerce plugin for standalone installs, the 2 most exciting features of MarketPress are the unified marketplace across all users and revenue sharing. That means visitors can search/browse products contained in all the individual stores. Additionally, the Marketplace admin (me) can take a small percentage of the purchase price without getting into drop-shipping, affiliate payments, etc. That’s some easy money.

Now if only I could get MarketPress free for life. That would be a dream…