META tab vanished

the META tag has vanished from resource editing window in RC 1.0.1 -

Bug: http://svn.modxcms.com/jira/browse/MODX-1290

This is not a bug. The Meta management tab is now off by defualt and can be turned back on via Config setting. It is a seldom used feature and most people use Chunks and TVs to accomplish the same thing.

You are welcome to turn it back on.

Cheers,

Jay

Thanks for the tip, I’ll look it up.

It should problerbly be a little more clear in Elements -> Manage META tags and Keywords.

We’ll review the wording there.

If it is for a legacy site I certainly understand using it. Our recommendation going forward is to use TVs and Chunks though.

TVs are an infinitely better way to manage Meta content, and will offer a migration path for Revo down the road. The "built in" meta content management will not have a direct migration from Evo to Revo.

ahhh -- i found that the ’show Meta Kewords tab’ was set (by default) to off in the site configuration. i switched it to ’on’ and was then able to assign meta data to resources. just curious -- is the use of metatags being phased out as a development best practice? wondering why the default setting is ’off’ when it comes to the meta kewords tab. thanks again.

All of these questions were answered as I composed this message. Thanks again for the clarification.

@marconi,

The management of meta keywords and meta description is better to do on a per document basis with the use of TVs. In addition, none of the big 3 search engines use or give any weight to meta keywords as Yahooo officially phased them out this year. You may still use them but it makes sense to just allow for a list of keywords in a text field vs. all the clicking and top level management required from the Meta tab.

Meta description fields are still a recommended practice for SEO. You can use a TV or chunk (TVs are better).

You might want to look at sites like SEOMoz, Dave Naylor’s SEO Blog, Jill Whalen’s High Rankings Advisor or Search Engine Guide for more information on best practices and SEO techniques.

I found the Meta tab clunky in terms of usability so I always hid it with ManagerManager and created an SEO tab with the following TVs:

keywords

description

frequencychange (for sitemap.xml)
Values: always||hourly||daily||weekly||monthly||yearly|never
Default: monthly

exclude page (for sitemap.xml) Values: Yes||No
Default: No

priority (for sitemap.xml)
Values: 0.1||0.2||0.3||0.4||0.5||0.6||0.7||0.8||0.9||1.0
Default: 0.6

robots
Values: noindex||nofollow||index||follow||noarchive||nosnippet||noodp||noydir||noimageindex||notranslate||unavailable_after
Default: index

seotitle (the document title moved from the General tab)
Note: Made mandatory by the ManagerManager required widget

friendlyurl (the alias field moved from the General tab)
Note: Made mandatory by the ManagerManager required widget

trackingscript (for Google conversions/adwords)

I make this part of every site we do and with the new release perhaps these things could be automatically installed with the new custom installation features.

This is a smart idea. Do you have a screencap of the implementation?

I would think you should be able to implement your custom MM rules on install.

Indeed the new installer would make this dead easy. Configure your rules and drop in a file in the install/assests/chunks/ directory.