A lack of Joomla! 1.5 is the missing metadata for the sections and categories. It would be great to be able to enter the meta description, meta keywords, robots and author for the categories created in K2.

I third this... i have just reached the point in a project where i was optimizing pages... and guess what: nowhere to input this :(

I'm surprised to see that noone cares too much about this.
Isn't metadata an important part of onpage optimisation? I mean, i worked with K2 so far, and it does some absolutely incredible things, has thousands of options, but NOT A METADATA tab...
This is absolutely strange... I'm dazed.... we build ships that go to Mars and there isn't a table inside to eat a potato? :)
I mean, i appreciate so much this component and the effort that the guys have put into it, but it was so close to perfection and now i realize that... it isn't perfect:|. It's just 99.8% perfect... come on guys... YOU CAN MAKE IT!!!
Anyone knows if in the future it will be available? Category/Item level metadata?

I "fourth" it. ;)

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A temporary trick is to enter meta tags manually in the description of the k2 catagory.
It's far from ideal but works well.

I fifth... I really need it...

@Wout , Even I type something in my meta categoty description, the page still fetch the global metadata

Wout said:A temporary trick is to enter meta tags manually in the description of the k2 catagory. It's far from ideal but works well.

Any news(/pointers) on this?
Didn't realize K2 missed this functionality untill I've created several categories and loads of items...

I support this. It is absurd that this can't be done through the interface.

It's so sad that 2 years after the start of this discussion, latest version of K2 still has no option to enter meta description and keywords for a category..

I have multiple templates and multiple category.php files so to get around this I guess I could manually add the code into each sub tempate category.php file. I have multiple menu links to category lists for all my major sections and my whole site is powered with k2 so I have to address this some way. Would prefer not to add it into the html of the template. It would be great to be a able to do this via the backend however.

How would one go about adding <meta name="description" content="description text" /> into the category.php file to override the global description which appears currently? Where exactly should I place it in category.php?

I apologize for a long time not visiting this forum.I have been experimenting to add meta description in the metadata, which automatically takes the description of a category that is being opened.

 

Here is what I did,

Open the file : components/com_k2/templates/default/category.php

 

just below the code :

defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');

 

I added some lines like this :

$document =& JFactory::getDocument();$judul = $this->category->description;$judul = str_replace ("<p>", "", $judul);$judul = str_replace ("</p>", "", $judul);$document->setDescription("Direktori Bisnis Lampung | kategori :  $judul ");

 

You can see the result  here (just for example) :

direktori.lampung.cc/pendidikan/perguruan-tinggi.html

 

Look at the metadata description taken from the category descriptions.

Then make your own.

 

Note : I used Joomla! 1.5 and K2 v 2.3

Hi Badrun

Thanks very much for the tip. Works like a dream however I cant believe that this its not possible to put custom meta descriptions in for category list menu items.

 

Thanks again

Hi
@badrun badranaya : I'm afraid to say that your tip didn't work for me. I did what you said and my categories on site were messed up. I removed the code and everything is back to normal.
We're still waiting for a magic tip to remedy this defect in K2. It's pity such a wonderful joomla solution comes short in terms of Seo :(