could metatags be done automatic?

Hi,

I tried to get the metatags created automatically, with no result.
maybe someone can come up with a solution. This is because allthough I create the TV s so clients "only" need to fill out the metatag description TV and the metatag keywords TV, they dont!
SO I tried to fill those TV s with place holders like [+title+][+longtiltle+], probably I do not realy understand what is happening, but it does not return results.

Next I tried it with a chunk:


Again nothing parsed, my ignorance again I guess. Finally I tried with ditto call in a TV, this way:

The tpl being the above chunk, but that creates a list not of the current page, bot of all the pages found in the parrent. Any suggestions? BTW I know this will not give the best metatags, but probably better then no metatags at all.

Thanks, Frank.

Use [*...*] tags. The other [+...+] tags are placeholders set by certain snippets for their own use.

Hi,

I am trying the MetaTagsExtra snippet. Moddified it a bit so the introtext is used for the description. Will try to find a way to use the content for that and limit the amout of words used.
I believe Ditto uses that (So I would prefer using ditto for the metag description). Also would like to find a way to extract text from content, filter out words like "the,it, verbs etc) to create the keywords. But that s a tour de force for me.
So it will take a lot of time,

thanks, Frank.

A plug-in extracting key words for you would be a beautiful addition! If you find a solution do let us know.

jisaac

Please keep us posted... sounds like a valuable addition

Quote from: Frank at Apr 15, 2010, 07:30 AM

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I am trying the MetaTagsExtra snippet. Moddified it a bit so the introtext is used for the description. Will try to find a way to use the content for that and limit the amout of words used.
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Why not give this a try?

Thanks, been busy, but will try that for sure.

It looks like you’ve abandoned your first approach, but part of the reason your description didn’t parse is you used "summary" instead of "introtext". If you (or anybody) is still interested, it should work if you try this in a chunk or template:



Alternatively you could try the "description" field.