Hi,

I'm having an issue with my meta data management.

I'm using:
Joomla Version: 1.5.18
JoomSEF version: 3.6.4

I created a blog (a menu item with the following type: Articles » Category / Blog and with the name CARS).

I noticed that my blog url turned into example.com/cars/blog/. I don't want /blog/ added to my URL so I'm used the following settings:

Manage Extensions -> Content -> Extension: All layout to URL "Never".

That sorted that.

Then I noticed that my meta data for the blog was the same as the meta data for my frontpage. Optimizing my site for SEO, this is definitely something I do NOT want.

In order to sort this out I set the Enable MetaData generation to Yes as well as the Rewrite keywords and description.

Doing this however made JoomSEF change ALL my meta data for ALL my pages, so I went back into the Manage Extensions -> Content bit and took a look at the "Meta Tags" tab. In here I put "Add category to page title" and "Generate description/keywords" to NO.
Then I removed all the "generated" meta data that showed up in the "Manage Meta Tags" manager.
This left me with just my own metadata and I was able to set my meta data for my CARS blog.

Then I created some new articles and I forget to put in the meta data in to one article and I didnt want to put meta data in another. This however left me with 2 articles with the same meta data as the frontpage.

Just as with the my CARS blog, this is an issue. Is my setup wrong? Am I doing something wrong? Or is what I'm trying to do not possible in the current version?

With kind regards,

George

Hello,

If the "Generate description/keywords" options are set to "No" in Content extension parameters, then JoomSEF does not generate any metadata for articles, so if there are any meta tags present in the site which are not present in JoomSEF's Meta Tags manager, they're created by Joomla alone or by some other plugin.

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team

Great,

I removed the meta data for the frontpage from the configuration.php and I put the frontpage meta data in the JoomSEF meta management system.

Now however I'm stuck with the following:
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="" />

On pages that don't have any meta data, is there an option to disable the generation of the tags completely?

I'm sorry, this is not possible with current version of JoomSEF, but we'll add this to our requested feature list.

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team

Hi David,

Thanks for the fast replies!

That's a shame. I know I'm asking for much here, but could you give an ETA on how long this will take? Or is there an option that you can create a patch that just adds this option so I can use it?

George