Settings for posts, pages and custom post types

Every post, page and custom post type gets its SEO title and meta description from a template unless you write one by hand. The Content types settings are where you set those templates, plus the default schema type and whether a whole content type should be indexed at all.

Changing a template here updates every item of that type that has no custom title or description, so it is the quickest way to fix titles across a whole site.

Open the settings

Go to RankKit SEO → Settings → Content types. There is one card per public content type (Posts, Pages, and any custom post types such as Products), followed by a Taxonomies card. Each card shows the content type's internal name, for example post or product.

Content type settings

Setting	Default	What it does
Title template	%title% %sep% %sitename%	The SEO title for items with no custom title.
Description template	%excerpt%	The meta description for items with no custom description. %excerpt% is the excerpt, or the first 155 characters of the content.
Default schema	Article for posts, Product for products, Web page for everything else	The page's main schema type. Each item can override it in the editor: in the Schema section of the RankKit SEO panel, or under Advanced → Schema type in the Classic Editor.
Hide from search (noindex)	Off	Sets every item of this type to noindex and leaves it out of the XML sitemap.

Templates use variables like %title%, %sep% and %sitename%. See every variable with an example in Title and description variables.

The schema types you can choose are: Web page, Article, Blog post, News article, Product, About page, Contact page, Collection page, Profile page, Item page, Q&A page, Checkout page, Search results page, Medical web page and No schema. See How RankKit SEO's schema works.

Note Media attachments have no card. RankKit SEO keeps attachment pages out of the index and, by default, redirects them to their file (see Settings → General → Redirect attachment pages to their file in Set up titles and meta descriptions).

Taxonomy settings

The Taxonomies card lists every public taxonomy, such as Categories, Tags and product categories.

Setting	Default	What it does
Title template	%term% %sep% %sitename%	The SEO title of the archive page for each term.
Noindex	On for Tags and Formats, off for everything else	Keeps all archives of this taxonomy out of search.

The meta description of a taxonomy archive is the term's description (%term_description%). To write a different title or description for a single category or tag, edit the term itself; see SEO for categories, tags and taxonomies.

Click Save changes when you are done.

Examples

A recipe site with a custom post type recipe:

Title template:        %title% Recipe %sep% %sitename%
Description template:  %excerpt%
Default schema:        Article

A shop that wants prices in product titles (needs WooCommerce):

Title template:  %title% %sep% %wc_price% %sep% %sitename%

FAQ

Why is a page still showing an old title after I changed the template?

The page probably has its own SEO title, which always wins over the template. Clear the SEO Title field in the General section of the RankKit SEO panel (the RankKit SEO button in the editor toolbar), or check the page in the bulk SEO editor. Search engines also need to recrawl the page before results change.

What happens if I noindex a content type?

Every item of that type gets a noindex robots tag, its canonical tag is left out, and it is dropped from the XML sitemap. In the RankKit SEO panel, those items show "This whole content type is set to noindex in RankKit SEO settings." See Noindex, nofollow and canonical URLs.

Should I noindex tags?

RankKit SEO does by default, because tag archives often repeat content that is already on category pages. If your tag pages are curated and useful, turn Noindex off for Tags.