description limits, link and meta tags

mkane · #1 January 9th, 2011, 11:30 PM

Hi:

Quick question(s) Eric:

On my template for the store front page I specified:

Code:

 <p class="desc">[product.description cut='255 chars']</p>

but for some reason it insists of only displaying a maximum of 70 characters, sometimes only 54 ?? - In the old version longer text used to ' wrap around ' the image - does that not work anymore ?

also, my inidividual product pages ( all pages for that matter ) have the following in the source code :

Code:

<link rel='index' title='site name' href='http://www.domain.com' />

( I changed the actual names to protect the innocent

can that be changed to :

<link rel="canonical" href='http://www.domain.com/individual_pages.com' />

and lastly :

for some reason the keyword meta tag generates an ' extra ' " symbol. i.e.

<meta name="keywords" content=""kw1,kw2,kw3....>

thanks for all the help. For what it's worth I'm loving V3 ; just need to unlearn a couple of things

Cheers

Michael

mkane · #2 January 9th, 2011, 11:53 PM

some follow up

after looking into the source code - the 255 character are actually being generated but it looks like the template just ' cuts off ' the display. ( I am displaying a ' product list ' )

Eric · #3 January 10th, 2011, 08:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mkane

On my template for the store front page I specified:

Code:

 <p class="desc">[product.description cut='255 chars']</p>

but for some reason it insists of only displaying a maximum of 70 characters, sometimes only 54 ?? - In the old version longer text used to ' wrap around ' the image - does that not work anymore ?

You're right, it's being cut off by the template.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mkane

also, my inidividual product pages ( all pages for that matter ) have the following in the source code :

Code:

<link rel='index' title='site name' href='http://www.domain.com' />

( I changed the actual names to protect the innocent

can that be changed to :

<link rel="canonical" href='http://www.domain.com/individual_pages.com' />

I do not believe that <link rel='index' is being added by Datafeedr. Your theme or another plugin may be generating that code.

As for adding a canonical link to your pages, you can do that by adding this
<link rel="canonical" href="[server.url type='fullpage']" />.

To add that, go to the pages (under VIEWS) where you want to make that <link> appear, then go to the View menu > View <head> Elements. There you can add the canonical code.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mkane

and lastly :

for some reason the keyword meta tag generates an ' extra ' " symbol. i.e.

<meta name="keywords" content=""kw1,kw2,kw3....>

What's the page name and the shop ID that this is occurring on?

Eric

Eric · #4 January 10th, 2011, 11:13 AM

Hi

OK, for the meta tags...

Basically, the extra double quote is appearing because some of your product names have double quotes in them.

Anyway, they can easily be filtered out.

Log into the Factory
Go into your store
Go to VIEWS > PRODUCT DETAIL > Default
Go to the View menu > View <head> Elements
Delete everything that is there.

Paste the following code into the textarea:

Code:

<?php
$product_name = str_replace('"', '', $product->name);
$category_name = str_replace('"', '', $category->name);
?>

<title>[product.name] | [category.name] | </title>
<meta name="description" content="[product.description]" />
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo str_replace(' ', ',',$product_name); ?>,<?php echo str_replace(' ', ',',$category_name); ?>" />

Save
Update store.

Basically, that removes all double quotes from the product name and category name, then replaces any spaces with commas to generate your meta keyword values.

Eric

mkane · #5 January 10th, 2011, 11:42 AM

Thank you as always

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