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SEO meta tags on each page.

By ghumanz 4458 days ago

I am trying to extract excerpts to display in meta description on each page of elgg 1.8.8. Something like that.

I found this article to this but it is for 1.7

I asked same question in community but nobody reply.

I really appriciate if you give me some right directions on this.

Below is a link to community discussion. I also mention some more code there.

Click here

Thanks

- Nikolai Shcherbin@rivervanrain
Nikolai Shcherbin 4458 days ago
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This a dirty solution (tested on Elgg 1.7.15)
<?php
if (empty($vars['title'])) {
$title = $vars['config']->sitename;
}
else
if (empty($vars['config']->sitename)) {
$title = $vars['title'];
}
else {
$title = $vars['title'] . " - " . $vars['config']->sitename;
}
$type = get_input('expages');
if($type == 'about') {
$title = elgg_echo('expages:about') . " - " . $vars['config']->sitename;
}
else if($type == 'terms') {
$title = elgg_echo('expages:terms') . " - " . $vars['config']->sitename;
}
else if($type == 'privacy') {
$title = elgg_echo('expages:privacy') . " - " . $vars['config']->sitename;
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head>
<title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo $title; ?>" />
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo $vars['title']; if (empty($vars['title'])) { echo $title; } ?>" />

Now you need to re-work it with the $excepts and $tags ;)
- ghumanz@harinderghumanz
ghumanz 4458 days ago
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RVR thanks, For title every thing is working. Please some one from core team help me why below codes are not displaying any contents?
I am trying to display discription by following codes.
$excerpt = elgg_get_excerpt($vars['entity']->description, 20);
or
$desc = elgg_extract('description', $vars, ''); $tags = elgg_extract('tags', $vars, '');
- DhrupDeScoop@Dhrup2000
DhrupDeScoop 4457 days ago
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elgg_get_excerpt($vars['entity']->description, 20); is wrong code - check some live examples in plugins...
- ghumanz@harinderghumanz
ghumanz 4457 days ago
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For blogs:-
$excerpt = $blog->excerpt;
if (!$excerpt) {
$excerpt = elgg_get_excerpt($blog->description);
}
Do I need to set for each case or I can change code like below:-
$excerpt = $vars['entity']->excerpt;
if (!$excerpt) {
$excerpt = elgg_get_excerpt($vars['entity']->description);
}
- ghumanz@harinderghumanz
ghumanz 4457 days ago
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I also tried below code but it only display </ b>
$description = autop($vars['entity']->description);
- ghumanz@harinderghumanz
ghumanz 4457 days ago
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Please experts help me and this will be useful for everyone!
Many thanks in advance
Regards
- ghumanz@harinderghumanz
ghumanz 4453 days ago
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BING is very clear about Meta discription but nobody is paying attention on these things, after 6 days no reply.
- Matt Beckett@Beck24
Matt Beckett 4453 days ago
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What's not working? Are you sure your entity has a description? Not all of them do. Also, not all pages have an entity passed in $vars
- ghumanz@harinderghumanz
ghumanz 4453 days ago
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Hi Matt,
I tried upper codes but always get a blank discription.
As tidypics,albums,media plugin and blog plugin has discription entity. So I was checking with that. I am very confused with this.
Please help me. Bing send me message saying your contents don't have discription tag. and I heard duplicate meta discription is also bad for seo.
- DhrupDeScoop@Dhrup2000
DhrupDeScoop 4452 days ago
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$excerpt = $vars['entity']->excerpt;
if (!$excerpt) {
$excerpt = elgg_get_excerpt($vars['entity']->description);
}
should woiky oki-doki..
as long as there's the source data available (as Matt points out;)
'always get a blank description...' => always got no excerpt or no entity !;-oO
what de heck r u doin` w/ autop in there ?
seems like u r trying odd snippets of 5/8 random code...
wrng approach ! try and mnake sure that you have got the correct entity and
it's description loaded -- that is the first step - the rest will follow naturally.

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