RESOLVED{ How the Hell do I add Meta Data

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MarkG Reply #1, 18 years, 4 months ago

I’ve been all over the forum, tutes and documentation and I can’t find anything that actually explains how to do this.

I want to write my own meta data for each document - author, description, expires etc.

I found the Manage Meta tags and keywords page and created all the ones I wanted.

But when I go to the document, there’s no way of actually filling in the meta content I want. It just says select the Meta tags you want for this document which I do, but nothing happens.

Where do I actually put in the real meta data? Am I missing something here, or is the Manage Meta Tags function completely bogus?

Thanks in advance. grin

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breezer Reply #2, 18 years, 4 months ago

You’ll have to add a snippet which grabs the desired info from the database and then adds it to the template (this is not done automatically). Best bet is to have a glance here at the documentation pages first:
http://modxcms.com/documentation.html

Then I would recommend to head over to the repository and grab this snippet, install and configure as per instructions included.
http://modxcms.com/MetaTagsExtra-1.5m-932.html

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MarkG Reply #3, 18 years, 4 months ago

But how and where do I get the info into the database in the first place?

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MarkG Reply #4, 18 years, 4 months ago

Thanks Breezer,

Just creating a TV seemed to be the easiest.

here’s what I did.

Typed the following code into my template:

<meta name="description" content="[*description*]" />

Or whatever other tag I want "author" etc.

Created TVs called "description" "author" etc

That’s it, it works, problem solved, the fields are now where I expect them to be on my individual documents, and I can enter whatever I want.

No need to download anything.

Although I’m still at a loss as to what the actual manage meta tags function in Modx actually does.

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Taff Reply #5, 18 years, 4 months ago

Although I’m still at a loss as to what the actual manage meta tags function in Modx actually does.

I think you will find that most people take a similar approach to you.

Under Manage META tags and keywords you can do just that, create new ones, delete the default ones etc.
Then for each page you select the META tags such as author and description (multiple are possible) and the keywords for that document.

It would then appear that they are thrown into the Template directly after the opening <head> tag.

I prefer a simple text TV on each page where I can add a comma separated list of keywords.
I also use MetaTagsExtra, because it works so well. I have also incorporated MetaDescription (I think it was called that) into it, so that should I have no description one is automagically generated from the content.

Cheers,
Taff

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MarkG Reply #6, 18 years, 4 months ago

Quote from: Taff at May 16, 2008, 04:54 AM

Under Manage META tags and keywords you can do just that, create new ones, delete the default ones etc.
Then for each page you select the META tags such as author and description (multiple are possible) and the keywords for that document

NO YOU CAN’T, there’s nowhere on the page settings to actually do that. That’s what’s been driving me up the wall.

It tells you, you can and asks yo to select the tags you want, but there’s no way of actually selecting them or populating them.

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opengeek Reply #7, 18 years, 4 months ago

markg:

There is a global META tags and keywords interface where you manage the lists of possible values. Then, on individual pages in the tree when you edit them, there is a tab where you can select from those values to assign to a specific page. The intuitiveness of that interface is very low, so, it tends to confused folk more often than not.

But, as you discovered, using TV’s can provide you a lot more flexibility and power on how you manage your meta data anyway.

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Ryan Thrash Reply #8, 18 years, 4 months ago

Quote from: markg at May 16, 2008, 07:38 AM

NO YOU CAN’T, there’s nowhere on the page settings to actually do that. That’s what’s been driving me up the wall.

It tells you, you can and asks yo to select the tags you want, but there’s no way of actually selecting them or populating them.

Manager > Resources > Manage META Tags and Keywords

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MarkG Reply #9, 18 years, 4 months ago

Ryan, Open Geek,

I don’t think you’ve understood what I’ve been saying.

I already know that there is a
Manager > Resources > Manage META Tags and Keywords

And I already know that there is a tab on the pages where you are supposed to be able to select them.

But there is no way of being able to select them let alone populate them once you’re on the individual page.

All I get is a list of tags with no way of being able to select them.

I said all this at the start, but maybe I’m not being clear enough.

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Ryan Thrash Reply #10, 18 years, 4 months ago

Command/control/shift click them (depending on which platform you’re on). If that’s not working then sounds like a browser incompatibility. Which browser are you using?

(Regardless, it’s infinitely more productive to use TVs with @INHERIT bindings for this application.)

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