Hi,

Just getting to grips with K2 and evaluating it for use in a large site. I created a category and linked to it but can't seem to add meta data for this page. The category itself doesn't have meta data input boxes and the menu link parameters don't allow them to be created either.

Am I missing something?

cheers

d

Hi, there is not that option with J! default or J! SEF. Unfortunately.
But this can be solved with sh404sef or

Is also possible add some code to the head of your category.php template which grab "category description" and put them to metatitle and Item title to metakeywords. Better than nothing ;)


// no direct access
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
/* Add AtLeast AutoMetadata - Hack */
$mainframe->prependMetaTag( "keywords", substr(strip_tags($this->category->name ), 0, 255) );
$mainframe->prependMetaTag( "description", substr(strip_tags($this->category->description ), 0, 255) );


Regards,
l

Lukas said:Hi, there is not that option with J! default or J! SEF. Unfortunately. But this can be solved with sh404sef or
Is also possible add some code to the head of your category.php template which grab "category description" and put them to metatitle and Item title to metakeywords. Better than nothing ;)


// no direct access
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
/* Add AtLeast AutoMetadata - Hack */
$mainframe->prependMetaTag( "keywords", substr(strip_tags($this->category->name ), 0, 255) );
$mainframe->prependMetaTag( "description", substr(strip_tags($this->category->description ), 0, 255) );


Regards,
l


Thanks - that sounds like a great idea.

However, I'm not sure which category.php to modify. I've got an override for catgory.php in my normal HTML folder, but it doesn't seem to be accomplishing my goal - (since I've removed the default category description in the override).

Any suggestions on adding a meta description *without* using the string you mention above? I only have one blog-page on my site, so I could add the data directly, but I'm not sure how...

The strange thing is that Google et al. is only seeing the most recently indexed post as our meta - not sure why.

great solution! thanx!

Lukas said:// no direct access
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
/* Add AtLeast AutoMetadata - Hack */
$mainframe->prependMetaTag( "keywords", substr(strip_tags($this->category->name ), 0, 255) );
$mainframe->prependMetaTag( "description", substr(strip_tags($this->category->description ), 0, 255) );


Regards,
l

Krasimir Nikolov said:great solution! thanx!
Lukas said:// no direct access defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
/* Add AtLeast AutoMetadata - Hack */
$mainframe->prependMetaTag( "keywords", substr(strip_tags($this->category->name ), 0, 255) );
$mainframe->prependMetaTag( "description", substr(strip_tags($this->category->description ), 0, 255) );


Regards,
l




I'd second this- exactly hat I was looking for thanks.

Great, nice to hear that.
Thanks
l

ı made manuel metas. I modifeid some page and db. And İt worked.----DB CHANGE/UPDATE

---

addALTER TABLE `jos_k2_categories` ADD `metadesc` text NOT NUL
>
ALTER TABLE `jos_k2_categories` ADD `metakey` text NOT NUL
>

Sweet.

Hope that Lefteris is going implement this...

 

l

Thank you very much for this, much appreciated.

emre said:
ı made manuel metas. I modifeid some page and db. And İt worked.----DB CHANGE/UPDATE

---

addALTER TABLE `jos_k2_categories` ADD `metadesc` text NOT NUL
>
ALTER TABLE `jos_k2_categories` ADD `metakey` text NOT NUL
>

Please help... metadesc and metakey of category edit, present in database fnd shov in adminpanel, but not present in html of category