How to create meta tags for menu items/sections/categories

[DesertFox]

Hello,

Another newbie question headed your way.  How do I create meta tags for menu items/sections/categories/components?

[joomlatwork]

See the documentation: http://www.joomlatwork.com/products/components/sef_patch_extended.html

In the component administration select the tab: "custom meta" where you can define your own META data settings. You can define up to 5 custom META fields.

The extended version will only work for the "standard" Joomla components / items. If you add a META tag for example "Copyright" you will see the META field appear in the several parameters items (see documentation). Within the front-page menu item it will show up within the parameters settings. Also for the blogsection, blogcategory, etc.. These are Joomla core item and we can control these.

When you allow that the default setting will be showed (for a custom META field) when there is no value filled in at the specific item (for example the frontpage) then this default  will always appear within the META head section with the default value, if a value is added for this item, for example to the frontpage item, this value will override the default value.

Since we don't have control over the component (these are custom made / other programming code) the only thing that we have done overhere is that you can apply the default value since the component generates its own specific pages. Thus in third party components the default values will be showed, only the third party does something with the head function of Joomla.

Does this answer your question?

Regards.

Richard

[DesertFox]

Tahnk you for the quick reply Richard.  I got everything working except for the contacts component.  When I go to contact manager -> paramaters and enter the meta description and keywords, they fail to show up in the source.  The same happends when I edit the meta tags in the main_menu editor (my contact info is on my main menu).  I also cant find a place where to change the title of the contact component.  If you could help me with these remaining problems then that would be great.

Thanks in advance!

[joomlatwork]

I will look into this.

Regards.

Richard

[joomlatwork]

I've solved the issue of showing the META fields and I'am trying to add the title field into the contacts parameters list and to show it up within html title. The problems is/was that the default contact form of Joomla doesn't have a title field available.

I will proberly post the files tonight.

Sorry for the delay, but the solution is underway..

Regards.

Richard

[DesertFox]

Thank you very much Richard.  You are being very helpful.

[joomlatwork]

Ls,

Here are the files. Please follow the instruction and don't install this as a component file. It only contains files for the displaying the content items correctly:

Select your correct Joomla version zip file and download it and unzip it into a directory.

Apply this files for the SEF Patch extended version contact items to work.

If you have downloaded the patch after 13 july 2006 it's already included within the package.

Place the files below in the directory mentioned:

contact.pat        -> /administrator/components/com_sefpatch/patch_files/
contact.php      -> /components/com_contact.php

contact_xml.tpl         -> /administrator/components/com_sefpatch/templates
contact_items_xml.tpl   -> /administrator/components/com_sefpatch/templates

After you have place the files above within the correct directory YOU MUST goto the SEF Patch Extended component desktop -> goto the configuration settings and save the settings to apply the templates correctly.

Please let me now if this works for you.

Regards.

Richard

[DesertFox]

Thanks, the patch resolved the problem.