Hi Is there a way of specifying default meta-tags in the CMS. A lot of my small client sites just don't use the meta-fields on each page, so being able to set a default (which can be overridden) would be great.

That's a good start thanks aram...

Ideally what I would like to do is set global meta-data for the site in the page template, but then add any page specific keywords (from the cms) to the global tag. Is there any way to reference individual meta fields, something like this in the template.ss:

Is there a document that tells me all of the CMS tags I can reference in my templates??

Cheers

Hi Guys,

I've added default global Meta Tags by using the Homepage Meta Tags as the default set, then only replacing them if individual meta tags are actually specified for that page. So, if most pages have no meta tags set tehn the homepage set will be used as default but if one of the pages has a different title, or description or keywords it will use them.

You can have the correct page title appear in the default set on each individual page. So, if a page has left any Meta tags blank it actually uses the default set (homepage tags) PLUS the actual page title. eg. About Us ›› The ABC Company Website

To do this you need to add a simple function to your Page_Controller in Page.php:
   function GetHomePage(){
   return DataObject::get("HomePage");
   }

Then, on the main Page.ss template call your Meta Tags like so:

<title><% if MetaTitle %>$MetaTitle<% else %>$Title &raquo; <% control GetHomePage %>$MetaTitle<% end_control %><% end_if %> </title>

<meta name="title" content="<% if MetaTitle %>$MetaTitle<% else %>$Title &raquo; <% control GetHomePage %>$MetaTitle<% end_control %><% end_if %>" />

<meta name="description" http-equiv="description" content="<% if MetaDescription %>$MetaDescription<% else %>$Title <% control GetHomePage %>$MetaDescription<% end_control %><% end_if %>" />

<meta name="keywords" http-equiv="keywords" content="<% if MetaKeywords %>$MetaKeywords<% else %>$Title <% control GetHomePage %>$MetaKeywords<% end_control %><% end_if %>" />

Hope this helps!

ps. By default Silverstripe populates the MetaTitle with the page title, so I've included the Default Title from the Homepage after it.