MetaGenerator
Version
2.0.4 (last update on Jul 7, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
32
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
15 January 2010
I wish I could put in ten stars! This plug-in works perfectly for canonicals!!! When I converted to 2.5, I changed my navivigation and lost my inbound links. So I recreated an unpublished menu for the hidden pages to recreate the old pages, which gave me duplicates in search. The plug-in was easily installed and HAS PERFECT CANONICALIZATION FOR JOOMLA 2.5!!! Thank you very, very much!
Blacklist and golden words - a smart feature. For half an hour, i optimized the keywords in almost every article of up to 90%, great plugin, thanks to the developers for a very high quality product, you saved us a lot of time and effort.
PS: I really did not understand why Canonical URL
PS: I really did not understand why Canonical URL
Works very well for me on Joomla 1.6. Developer's been very helpful and promptly answered any question.
Be noted that it pulls meta from and for articles only, which was exactly what I needed. A really good extension altogether.
Be noted that it pulls meta from and for articles only, which was exactly what I needed. A really good extension altogether.
Well, I installed this plugin in my joomla 1.6.1, and what I get as the meta page description on EVERY page, is the information from the site footer. FOOTER! Same thing on every page. In other words it is not drawing text from the article at all, but from a random module, in the footer. I have no idea how that even works. But it is disastrous. Uninstalling.
Owner's reply
Let me say that Metagenerator v2.0 for joomla 1.6 is still in Beta phase and bugs is expected to be found so you can go to my discussions group in order to get it working for you and all other users who can have the sample problem.
Let me start by saying, I understand that the 1.6 beta is just that... a beta release. This is simply a note to the author.
Currently the 1.6 Beta is not applying any meta desc information. Otherwise, seems to be working excellent! I love the blacklist and gold list features.
Currently the 1.6 Beta is not applying any meta desc information. Otherwise, seems to be working excellent! I love the blacklist and gold list features.
Plugin works great but when i want to configure it, i cant save or save & close, those two buttons don't do anything so i cant change any settings.
Owner's reply
You refer to "save and close" so I assume you are using the beta version for joomla 1.6. As beta version, bugs are expected. You should go to the extension discussion group to talk about this; anyway, "save" and "save and close" are working here and metagenarator is not breaking those joomla functions.
I wanted a quick way to get meta content on a site that has a very low budget. This does the trick.
At first it used the same keywords for every page as it was grabbing the text from an article in a module and stopping there (a bug?). My q&d fix was to edit metagenerator.php to strip the first 50 chars of $thecontent so it skips over the troublesome text (line 126: $thecontent = substr($thecontent, 49);). I know there's a better way to do it but this method took less time than writing this review.
Dougman
At first it used the same keywords for every page as it was grabbing the text from an article in a module and stopping there (a bug?). My q&d fix was to edit metagenerator.php to strip the first 50 chars of $thecontent so it skips over the troublesome text (line 126: $thecontent = substr($thecontent, 49);). I know there's a better way to do it but this method took less time than writing this review.
Dougman
Owner's reply
It seems you are not using last version. First, Metagenerator dosen't use sbstr() anymore, it uses joomla JString::substr for utf-8 support. Also what you are doing stripping the text is an option in last version.
Thank you very much for your review!!
Articles get less rating on search engines as they will not have metatags. You can define them manually during article submission but where you have live site with many articles, you can not keep up with this work on regular basis. This plugin will take over that work nicely and help you get your articles listed in search properly.
Thanks for this plugin.
Thanks for this plugin.
It's a good plugin for adding metadata to your articles, but it can't handle large articles. It tries to encode to many utf-8 characters which leads to a timeout on libraries/phputf8/substr_replace.php.
It's a nice Plugin, especially if you are too lazy to write the metas by your own (of course that would be the best).
But I figured out a big problem:
As soon as you publish a module (ex. mod_newspager) to show within the article you are currently viewing the meta tags are used from that module!
In the case of mod_newspager the meta description and the meta keywords of the first article showed in that module are used instead of the description and keywords from the real article!
Neighter Google nor me like that.
So please fix it with the next release (I tested version 1.2.4).
But I figured out a big problem:
As soon as you publish a module (ex. mod_newspager) to show within the article you are currently viewing the meta tags are used from that module!
In the case of mod_newspager the meta description and the meta keywords of the first article showed in that module are used instead of the description and keywords from the real article!
Neighter Google nor me like that.
So please fix it with the next release (I tested version 1.2.4).
Installed..Configured..Saved....and it worked like a charm!
A wonderful work by the Author.
I'm not using the Canonical url setting, as it works only for Articles, but we have other plugins for that. ;)
All I wanna say is...Excellent Work...Keep it up!
A wonderful work by the Author.
I'm not using the Canonical url setting, as it works only for Articles, but we have other plugins for that. ;)
All I wanna say is...Excellent Work...Keep it up!
This component works with very little customization. Had no trouble with it at all.
Many thanks to the developer :)
Many thanks to the developer :)
It works great on content items. Saves a lot of time adding meta-tags. But it doesn't do a good job on the frontpage. On the frontpage I would like to have my general Joomla description & keywords, but the plugin seems to grab some random contentitem and use it as a metatag. I'd rather have an option to disable the plugin on the frontpage.
Owner's reply
You asked about this and I sent to you a new version with the option to disable the plugin on forntpage. I'm waitting your reply.
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