Extension:Add HTML Meta and Title

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Add HTML Meta and Title Release status:Extension status stable
ImplementationTemplate:Extension#type	Tag
DescriptionTemplate:Extension#description	Allows for easier SEO (search engine optimization) with MediaWiki.
Author(s)Template:Extension#username	Vladimir Radulovski, Jim Wilson, Dennis Roczek (dennisroczektalk)
Latest versionTemplate:Extension#version	0.7 (2015-09-29)
MediaWikiTemplate:Extension#mediawiki	1.24+
Database changesTemplate:Extension#needs-updatephp	No
LicenseTemplate:Extension#license	MIT License
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TagsTemplate:Extension#tags <seo>
Hooks usedTemplate:Extension#hook OutputPageBeforeHTMLManual:Hooks/OutputPageBeforeHTML BeforePageDisplayManual:Hooks/BeforePageDisplay
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The Add HTML Meta and Title extension allows for easier SEO (search engine optimization) with MediaWiki. It is based in part on the extension MetaKeywordsTag.

Usage

When you enter the following in a wiki page:

<seo title="word1,word2" metakeywords="word3,word4" metadescription="word5,word6" google-site-verification="123456789-abfd123456" />

...or the shorter...

<seo title="word1,word2" metak="word3,word4" metad="word5,word6" google-site-verification="123456789-abfd123456" />

...these words are added to the HTML title and meta headers. This makes SEO (search engine optimization) with MediaWiki easier.

For example, the above would become:

<title>Original title, word1,word2</title>         (the string ", word1,word2,..." is added)
<meta name="word3,word4" content="word5,word6" />
<meta google-site-verification="123456789-abfd123456" />

(This is a new meta tag - existing metas are left untouched.)

Installation

• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called AddHTMLMetaAndTitle in your extensions/ folder.

• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:

  require_once "$IP/extensions/AddHTMLMetaAndTitle/AddHTMLMetaAndTitle.php";
  

• Y Done - Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Changelog

v0.7.0

• added support for PHP CodeSniffer checks
• fixed any remaining errors and warnings.

v0.6.0

• added Google's site verification tag

v0.5.1

• modified to work with MW versions 1.1.2 and up (Revision by Mic)

v0.4.0

• have put $emt=""; in the parseSEO function because I got some nasty PHP notice for an unitialised variable...

v0.2.0

• added htmlspecialchars() as a filter to the text that is displayed in the title and meta - anything else needed to prevent malicious people? I think no. (If you are an English speaker you may want to use the htmlentities PHP function, which is more restrictive)

v0.1.0

• Initital version - everything works.

See also

• Extension:WikiSEO is based on this extension, but rewritten to modern MediaWiki standards and under active development.
• Extension:MetaKeywordsTag for meta tags only
• If you only want to override the title on pages (not append words to it), you might also look at the DISPLAYTITLE tag in combination with the Manual:$wgAllowDisplayTitle and Manual:$wgRestrictDisplayTitle settings.
• Extension:Semantic Meta Tags for easily setting meta and keywords on entire namespaces or individual pages

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