How to add auto meta tags?

Question

I'd like to know how I can add meta tags automatically. I'd like the tags to be the keywords and the "More information for your question"  to be the description. Is that possible?

Answer 1

I'm sure this is a common question. The best way to do this is using an advanced HTML theme: http://www.question2answer.org/advanced.php#theme-advanced

Your theme's qa-theme.php should contain this:

<?php

    class qa_html_theme extends qa_html_theme_base
    {
        function head_custom()
        {
            if ($this->template=='question') {
                $this->output('<META NAME="description" CONTENT="'.strip_tags(@$this->content['q_view']['content']).'"/>');
                $this->output('<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="'.strip_tags(implode(', ', @$this->content['q_view']['q_tags'])).'"/>');
            }       
        }
    }

?>

What's happening here is that your theme is overriding the default head_custom() method (which does nothing) to output the meta tags, if this is a question page.

If you don't want to mess with advanced themes, you can also use the above function head_custom() to replace the one in qa-theme-base.php, but this will make it harder for you to upgrade to future versions of Q2A.

See also my comments here regarding whether meta tags are worthwhile:

http://www.question2answer.org/qa/1153/description-meta-keywords-front-page-then-related-questions#1163

Comments

It is a good option... Thanks!

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But getting following error on editing any post..
Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/../public_html/qa-theme/Q2AStack/qa-theme.php on line 87

Any way to avoid this?

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For your information, version 1.2 now takes care of these meta tags for you automatically.

As for the error, you can try putting an @ sign before word implode.

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Then i can remove this extra coding, rt?
Description and Keywords will be generated based on question, rt?

Thank you.

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Yes, that's right, once you upgrade to 1.2.