MetaTags

Sets <meta> tags for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes.

• Getting Started
• Configuration
• Title
• Notes

Getting Started

If you're using the default config.yml, then you can add the following fields to your contenttypes.yml if you want to be able to set custom title and description:

    metatitle:
        prefix: "<hr><h3>Search Engine Optimization</h3>"
        label: Title
        type: text
        class: wide
        variant: inline
    metadescription:
        label: Meta Description
        type: textarea
        height: 50px

Also, you can add a field metakeywords for a meta tag with keywords.

    metatitle:
        label: Meta Keywords
        type: text
        class: wide
        variant: inline

Configuration

Use config.yaml to configure <meta> elements that are added on every page. Add items under the meta item using the following template:

meta-tag-name:
    - first-field
    - second-field
    - description
    - excerpt:
        params: [ 160 ]
        filters: [ strip_tags, trim ]

It will check the fields of a contenttype in the order from top to bottom. Once a value is found, it will stop check following fields. If no values are found, then no <meta> tag is added.

Optionally, use params and filters for extra customisation. This extension uses parameters as follows:

$content->property( $param1, $param2, ... );

Filters are called as follows:

filter( $value );

When using params and/or filters, make sure you add an colon : after the field name. Just check the config file config.yaml for some examples.

Title

The value for title is a special case: no <meta> tag is added. Instead, use {{ metatitle() }} in your twig template to override the title. Because a title can be defined in many ways, the easiest way to use this extension while maintaining a default fallback is to wrap an {% if %} statement around the current contents of <title>. Like so in _header.twig:

<title>
    {%- if metatitle() is not empty %}
        {{- metatitle('|', app.config.get('general/sitename')) }}
    {%- else %}
        {# ... your default title code goes here ... #}
    {%- endif -%}
</title>

Two (optional) parameters can be set with metatitle, a separator and some text that goes after the separator, usually the name of the site.

Use the value (empty) to by-pass the empty string check. It will still output an empty string. This is useful for homepages, where you just want to show the site's name and nothing else.

Notes

In the future, it might be handy (or will it make this too complex?) to define rules and fields per contenttype.