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Page comments http://www.silverstripe.org/home/ http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15174 I've clarified with @feejin via IRC: I've falsely referred to SiteTree.MetaDescription being removed, which is still an important SEO feature in core. Instead, we did remove SiteTree.MetaKeywords, where we both agree its irrelevant for SEO these days.

In terms of SiteTree.MetaTitle, @kinglozzer started a poll on the dev mailinglist about this: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/silverstripe-dev/dOB7_rAHCuc Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:47:57 +1300 Ingo http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15174 http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15173 We deal with SEO a fair bit and for us. having control over <title> and meta description are important features.

I quite often work with designs where Page Name will be <H1> but want something different for <title>.

Yes we can add the code into every site, but "too much noise for a core feature", really? It's hidden in the meta description dropdown, hardly getting in the way of anything.

Glad to see everything on my 3.0.x niggle list has been cleared up though :)
Fri, 21 Dec 2012 06:24:59 +1300 Colin Richardson http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15173 http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15161 Wonderful! Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:39:11 +1300 Joel Grøndrup http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15161 http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15160 Hello Hendrik, the "irrelevant for SEO" was referring to the MetaDescription.

If you look in the standard Page.ss, MetaTitle was used as follows:
<title><% if $MetaTitle %>$MetaTitle<% else %>$Title<% end_if %> &raquo; $SiteConfig.Title</title>

Without the presence of $MetaTitle, you still get to tweak the standard $Title to your heart's content in terms of SEO, but it will show in the same way as on the page headline (assuming you're using $Title there in your template).

SEOMoz recommends 70 chars max for title, which can easily be exceeded when appending $SiteConfig.Title as well. $MetaTitle was good for tweaking that, but frankly it would be better handled by custom template logic which checks for character counts.

So, MetaTitle still has its merits for SEO-heavy websites, its just a bit too much noise for a core feature. Its a ~10 LOC extension/module to re-add it if required. Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:36:41 +1300 Ingo http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15160 http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15159 SilverStripe v3.0.x is much slower than previous release.

Is there any news about performance optimization? Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:34:24 +1300 Lone Shooter http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15159 http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15156 Thanks for this Pre-Christmas present. It really looks&feels good!

I like the modified Save&Publish Buttons.

Sometimes I wish an easy option to "totally preview" a page like in SS2.4 - just a button to the real url of the page in stage mode.

What I really don't understand is the removal of the MetaTitle.

Your explanation is: "irrelevant in terms of SEO", but I believe that is just a misunderstanding.

It is described as the "single most important on-page SEO element" - on this page http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/title-tag - the same document you reference to state the opposite.
Please reread and reconsider!

Have a wonderful Christmas,
Hendrik Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:10:58 +1300 Hendrik Schaper http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15156 http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15154 Great work! I really like the new preview mode. Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:35:49 +1300 memdev. http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15154 http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15153 Changing the preview between desktop/tablet/mobile is pretty cool! Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:46:36 +1300 Frank http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15153 http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15149 Hello Thierry, you should be able to backport https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/commit/c8136f5d4c8a37a4da274cd1c93907c0a2af86a7 to a 3.0 installation without any problems. There should be a closed pull request discussing the details if you can find it :) Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:06:45 +1300 Ingo http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15149 http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15148 awesome job guys keep up the good work Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:51:33 +1300 Felipe Skroski http://www.silverstripe.org/santa-brought-you-a-3.1.0-beta1/#PageComment_15148