I'm sure this question must have been answered somewhere, and I'm sure there is an easy answer but I have not been able to find it. So, if someone can please help me, I'd appreciate it.
I am trying to have a unique meta description tag for each category. However, they all seem to display the same description drawn from the "System Configuration " section of the admin panel. However, I only want this for the home page of the links directory.
I have trieds changing this in two places.
1. I go to Edit Categories 2. I select Edit cateogry 3. In the third field down, which is called "Description", I type a new description. But I guess this is for something else???
I also tried entering the following in the field "Header Insert: Put category-specific meta tags and other such header HTML here."
This works for me. Just double checked by cutting your "blah blah" and pasting it into the header insert field and sure enough it showed in the source. Edit the category and see if your description actually saved the first time you tried it.
It works as described, any text typed in there is inserted in the wrapper. The only way it wouldn't insert is if you have a bad wrapper. If you once used a very old version (say 2.x), and copied over your old wrapper, then of course various newer features wouldn't work.
I uploaded a new wrapper (from version 3.4.6 - I hope this won't clash with my 3.3.8 installation) and then added my custom designs and it all seems to work fine.
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I'm sure this question must have been answered somewhere, and I'm sure there is an easy answer but I have not been able to find it. So, if someone can please help me, I'd appreciate it.
I am trying to have a unique meta description tag for each category. However, they all seem to display the same description drawn from the "System Configuration " section of the admin panel. However, I only want this for the home page of the links directory.
I have trieds changing this in two places.
1. I go to Edit Categories
2. I select Edit cateogry
3. In the third field down, which is called "Description", I type a new description. But I guess this is for something else???
I also tried entering the following in the field "Header Insert:
Put category-specific meta tags and other such header HTML here."
<meta name="description" content="Blah blah blah blah.">
But this doesn't work either.
I'm sure the solution is simple, but I really have not managed to locate this. Please help.
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I also tried entering the following in the field "Header Insert:
Put category-specific meta tags and other such header HTML here."
<meta name="description" content="Blah blah blah blah.">
But this doesn't work either.
This works for me. Just double checked by cutting your "blah blah" and pasting it into the header insert field and sure enough it showed in the source. Edit the category and see if your description actually saved the first time you tried it.
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It's definitely saved.
I have done this with every category. I have had this set up for ages, in the past few versions of WSNLinks and I have never got it to work.
Strange.
I wonder what I am doing wrong?
Although, in practice I tried this with keywords also. I winder if that's the problem?
<meta name="description" content="Blah blah blah.">
<meta name="keywords" content="keywords, keywords">
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Nup. Tried just the description. It is still just picking up the main description and keywords from the home page.
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Nup. Tried just the description. It is still just picking up the main description and keywords from the home page.
Sorry I can't help any more as it works ok for me - hopefully Paul will be able to help you
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I hope so.
Thanks for trying.
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It works as described, any text typed in there is inserted in the wrapper. The only way it wouldn't insert is if you have a bad wrapper. If you once used a very old version (say 2.x), and copied over your old wrapper, then of course various newer features wouldn't work.
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Hmmm. I've only used fairly new wrappers. I wonder what has gone wrong?
Perhaps I need to redesign my wrapper from scratch and see if that helps.
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Test against the default wrapper and go from there. Only the <head></head> area is relavant to the meta tags issue though of course.
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I uploaded a new wrapper (from version 3.4.6 - I hope this won't clash with my 3.3.8 installation) and then added my custom designs and it all seems to work fine.
Thanks for the help.
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Under header insertion for the category I use this and use the description I have for the category.
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="{CATDESCRIPTION}">
works great for me.
Liz