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EXT: Meta Tags Auto-Maker (BK)

Author:Robert Lemke
Created:2005-05-31T11:13:57
Changed:2005-12-08T23:54:10
Author:Brice BERNARD
Email:contact@brikou.com
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EXT: Meta Tags Auto-Maker (BK)

Extension Key: bk_automakemetatags

Copyright 2000-2005, contact@brikou.com, <contact@brikou.com>

This document is published under the Open Content License

available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml

The content of this document is related to TYPO3

- a GNU/GPL CMS/Framework available from www.typo3.com

Table of Contents

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Introduction 1

What does it do? 1

Installation 2

Administration 3

Configuration 3

Reference 3

Known problems 3

To-Do list 3

Changelog 3

Introduction

What does it do?

This extension offers the opportunity to generate meta tags automatically. Excellent! you don't need to write these directly in the template no more, furthermore backend users now have the ability to set these meta tags easily :-). The meta tags setting is done via page records (see configuration section).

Meta tags are checked to be XHTML compliant ( maybe more at www.brikou.com ).

Actually, this extension generates these meta tags :

  • abstract
  • author
  • copyright
  • date
  • descrpition
  • keywords
  • imagetoolbar
  • MSSmartTagsPreventParsing
  • revisit-after
  • robots
  • reply-to

Installation

Download the extension from TER then add this one to your main template as shown below :

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Remove meta tags from your template to prevent them from being rendered twice.

img-2 Change the type of your root page and choose “advanced”. Then you can add tags you've just removed from you standard template. Refer to next screenshot to decide where to insert information to be render by this extension through meta tags (most should be self explicit like keywords or description).

Administration

It's the same as page administration because setings are set through this kind of record.

Configuration

Screenshot

You can enable or disable the rendering of a metatags in the TYPO3 Constant Editor, here's a screenshot of the available options you can configure...

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Reference

abstract

Meta Tag

abstract

# On Screenshot

5

Note

Abstract of the page

author

Meta Tag

author

# On Screenshot

6

Note

Author of the page or page tree (if empty slide until find author)

date

Meta Tag

date

# On Screenshot

1

Note

Based on last change of the page but may be overriden by “last updated” field

description

Meta Tag

description

# On Screenshot

9

Note

Description of the page or page tree (if empty slide until find description)

imagetoolbar

Meta Tag

imagetoolbar

# On Screenshot

Note

Offer the ability to hide the MS toolbar when you hover images

keywords

Meta Tag

keywords

# On Screenshot

8

Note

Keywords of the page or page tree (if empty slide until find keywords)

MSSmartTagsPreventParsing

Meta Tag

MSSmartTagsPreventParsing

# On Screenshot

Note

Disable the Microsoft tags parsing (in order to display advertising or I don't know)

revisit-after

Meta Tag

revisit-after

# On Screenshot

4

Note

Based on “cache expires” field which is converted to days

robots

Meta Tag

robots

# On Screenshot

2,3,10

Note

Sets index/noindex + follow/nofollow + archive/noarchive properties

reply-to

Meta Tag

reply-to

# On Screenshot

7

Note

Email of author of the page or page tree (if empty slide until find email)

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Known problems

Be aware not to use page.headerData.1001 to page.headerData.10??, most fo the time this is not a problem.

To-Do list

  • Make keywords generation accumulative through rootline...
  • Add the opportunity to add Dublin Core metatags

Changelog

  • 08/12/2005 : configuration can be done through constant editor + added 2 more metatags (imagetoolbar and MSSmartTagsPreventParsing)
  • 19/11/2005 : public availability (be cool, share is great)

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