Extension:MetaDescriptionTag
 Release status: stable |
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| Implementation | Tag |
| Description | Provides a tag for adding a custom <meta> description to the document's <head> |
| Author(s) | Dror S., Joshua C. Lerner (original author) |
| Latest version | 0.4.0 (2017-05-22) |
| MediaWiki | 1.25+ |
| Database changes | No |
| License | MIT License |
| Download | GitHub: Note: See below |
<metadesc> |
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The MetaDescriptionTag allows users to add a <meta> description into a page's <head>.
Installation
- Download and place the file(s) in a directory called
MetaDescriptionTagin yourextensions/folder. - Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
wfLoadExtension( 'MetaDescriptionTag' );
Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.
Usage
Once installed, editors of your wiki can add a <meta> description tag by adding the following to the article text:
<metadesc>PageDescription</metadesc>
Where PageDescription would be replaced by the desired meta description.
For example, the above would become:
<meta name="description" content="PageDescription" />
Usage through a template
Say for example you want use a template to set the meta description to something like:
<metadesc>Extract from the article ARTICLETITLE</metadesc>
Create a template called (for example) "Template:Metadesc". Add the following content:
{{#tag:metadesc | Extract from the article {{{1}}} }}
In the article to which you set the meta description, add:
{{metadesc|{{PAGENAME}} }}
Changelog
- 0.4.0
This is re-write to make it compatible with more modern MediaWiki practices and make sure it works nicely with MediaWiki 1.27+:
- Extension Registration (extension.json)
- json i18n files - An actual README file! :-)
- Switching to semantic versioning.
- 0.3
Fix i18n to work with v1.16+, sanitize output using htmlspecialchars().
- 0.2
Change syntax to <metadesc>some content</metadesc> to support template variable substitution.
- 0.1
Initial release.