First tag in the section

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webby Reply #1, 19 years, 10 months ago

Hi all,

for seo purporse...I need to insert TITLE tag for first in the head section.

On my template is the first, but because I’ve create others meta tags (keyword, description etc) for some strange reason when I see source page of my modx website I see for firs tags that I’ve created and next the TITLE tag.

I wish to put title tag for first for seo reasons. Any suggest ?

thanks

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Ryan Thrash Reply #2, 19 years, 10 months ago

MODx does not change the way your templates output. Put them anywhere you’d like.

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opengeek Reply #3, 19 years, 10 months ago

Actually, if you are using the automatic keywords feature (or any other meta tags in manager interface), it will in fact place those immediately after the opening head tag. The only way around this now is either hacking the core code to insert these after the title tag as you want, or to choose another approach to assigning keywords or other metatags (i.e. put them directly in a TV you define and place that TV’s tag after the title tag in your template,

<title>blah</title>[*mymetatv*]

).

Jason Coward
Chief Architect @ MODX
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Ryan Thrash Reply #4, 19 years, 10 months ago

Good point Jason. Thanks!

Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
Follow me on Twitter at @rthrash or catch my occasional unofficial thoughts at thrash.me

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webby Reply #5, 19 years, 10 months ago

Thanks all for reply,

Jason.....yes my problem Is that , I use "meta tags in maneger".
Ok I’ll try by TV.

If I go to hacking core code, is one file or it’s more complex ?

thanks again

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opengeek Reply #6, 19 years, 10 months ago

The function is called mergeDocumentMETATags in manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php, at around line 609 in the 0.9.5 release. The next to last line of the function (625) does a preg_replace to place the meta tags right after the opening head tag:

    function mergeDocumentMETATags($template) {
        if ($this->documentObject['haskeywords'] == 1) {
            // insert keywords
            $keywords= implode(", ", $this->getKeywords());
            $metas= "\t<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"$keywords\" />\n";
        }
        if ($this->documentObject['hasmetatags'] == 1) {
            // insert meta tags
            $tags= $this->getMETATags();
            foreach ($tags as $n => $col) {
                $tag= strtolower($col['tag']);
                $tagvalue= $col['tagvalue'];
                $tagstyle= $col['http_equiv'] ? 'http-equiv' : 'name';
                $metas .= "\t<meta $tagstyle=\"$tag\" content=\"$tagvalue\" />\n";
            }
        }
        $template= preg_replace("/(<head>)/i", "\\1\n" . $metas, $template);
        return $template;
    }

You could modify that to look for the closing title tag instead; just make sure all of your templates have a title tag...

Jason Coward
Chief Architect @ MODX
http://www.jasoncoward.com | http://twitter.com/drumshaman | https://github.com/opengeek