In a project I’m working on at the moment, The page structure is set up using 5 main pages, and then each have their respective sub-pages. For SEO purposes, I wanted my <title> meta tag to display the page title and it’s parent page title if the current page was a child page, i.e.:

<title>Page Title</title> or <title>Parent Page Title — Page Title</title>

So after doing a little searching and combining some code, this is what I came up with:

<title><?php
if($post->post_parent) {
$parent_title = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
echo $parent_title;
?> &#8212; <?php } ?><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>

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