meta tags

Why we have easly add different meta description for each doc but not other meta tags .What if you have a 5000 page website with 10000 keywords ?.I read all threads but still not understand this.
Please see attachment and if its possible you will make newbies life a lot easier

I personally use the Summary (introtext) text as the meta description... works a treat

<meta name="Description" content="[*introtext*]" />

Quote from: ganeshXL at Jul 16, 2007, 11:59 PM

yep... also, if you need custom meta tags on a per-page basis, you could just use TVs.

This is ALWAYS my solution. Two Textarea TV’s: meta_keywords and meta_description.

Then, simply drop the following into the HTML <head>:



Voila!

P.S.
If you set the DEFAULT value for your Description/Keywords you can ensure that every page on your site has a description and valid list of keywords. Then, you merely edit/update manually on the more specific, targeted pages of your site.

pixelchutes: What a beautify elegant solution... I think the coding team should use it instead of the current keyword solution (that no one uses)

Cheers

You mean MODx has built in keywords?

Those need to go ... they’re just awkward ... does anyone actually use them?

I think I can speak for 90% of the MODx users... NO ONE EVER USES THE BUILT IN KEYWORDS FUNCTIONS.

The TV solution above is the easiest and most user friendly solution I’ve seen yet.

I’ve used summary/introtext and description fields before along with a snippet that simply returns the values of those fields if present, or a default "fall back" value if they’re not. I’m starting to get more and more away from the default meta fields being used for clever purposes like this though (which does "save" a couple of TVs ... but big deal ).