Cygnus6 Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 This has been a pretty frustrating experience. I am coming in on a project following up for another developer who is no longer available for questions or consultation. I know VERY little about osCommerce though I am very familiar with other shopping carts and the process, etc. For the life of me, I cannot get the META tags to show up on ANY product pages, category pages or even the home page. In the admin section, I go to Header Tags and then Text Control. I cannot make heads or tails of anything there though I do know that the page titles are all red and I have figured out that that is bad. How it is bad or how to fix it doesn't appear to be in any of the documentation and the search function for these forums does not allow words like "no" or "on" so it makes searching for this subject very challenging, to boot. The title of our site appears as the title of every page - which is fine (not great, though) - but there are no META tags anywhere to be found. No Keywords, no Descriptions, just the CHARSET. I have set values for these fields on each product page and I am sure that there is a simple switch to flip... but I am not finding it. HELP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natewlew Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 It would be nice to know which Meta Tag contribution you have installed. This is code from my index.php: html <?php echo HTML_PARAMS; ?>><head> <?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'meta_tags.php'); ?> <title><?php echo META_TAG_TITLE; ?></title> <meta name="description" content="<?php echo META_TAG_DESCRIPTION; ?>" /> <meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo META_TAG_KEYWORDS; ?>" /> <base href="<?php echo (($request_type == 'SSL') ? HTTPS_SERVER : HTTP_SERVER) . DIR_WS_CATALOG; ?>"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css"> You need to find the code that looks similar to this and post it. Other great Open Source (Free) programs: (Free as in free speech not free beer) The Gimp - An image program. | Firefox - All you have to do is add the Web Developer add-on to make this web browser complete. | FileZilla - An ftp program. | Inkscape - A good program to create images with. | Thunderbird - An email program. | Openoffice.org - An office suite that is compatible with MS Office. | Abiword - Another office suite. | Audacity - A sound recording tool. | ddp's Picks | Wordpress - An easy to use blogging software. | Joomla - An easy to use CMS that has ecommerce plug-ins. | Drupal - Another CMS How do I find these programs? Google Search! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus6 Posted January 4, 2007 Author Share Posted January 4, 2007 It would be nice to know which Meta Tag contribution you have installed. Interesting. I was beginning to suspect that I needed to add a "Contribution" but one would think that Meta tag generation would be built in to any good shopping cart program. Who knew? This is code from my index.php: You need to find the code that looks similar to this and post it. Yeah... mine is missing the call to the hack file (meta_tags.php). I suppose it is back to Contributions to pick a good one. Which would you suggest? Also, will I be able to utilize the tag data I put into each product page when I added each product or have I wasted that time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥toyicebear Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 Interesting. I was beginning to suspect that I needed to add a "Contribution" but one would think that Meta tag generation would be built in to any good shopping cart program. Who knew?Yeah... mine is missing the call to the hack file (meta_tags.php). I suppose it is back to Contributions to pick a good one. Which would you suggest? Also, will I be able to utilize the tag data I put into each product page when I added each product or have I wasted that time? it sounds as you already have a contribution installed if you have header tags in admin aswell as meta info fileds in the add product screen of the admin. most lily you have an incorect installed version of header Tags Controller , look it up in the contributions section Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus6 Posted January 4, 2007 Author Share Posted January 4, 2007 it sounds as you already have a contribution installed if you have header tags in admin aswell as meta info fileds in the add product screen of the admin. Really? I have: Status Date Available Products Manufacturer Products Name Tax Class Product Price (Net) Product Price (Gross) Products Description And then below that a section for Meta Tag Information: Product Title Tag Product Description Tag Product Keywords Tag. Finished by Quantity Model Image URL Weight Are these not the standard "Add a Product" items on others' pages? most lily you have an incorect installed version of header Tags Controller , look it up in the contributions section I'll check this out. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus6 Posted January 4, 2007 Author Share Posted January 4, 2007 Progress has been made. Two of the words in Header Tag - English (in Admin section) are now black. Still no Meta tags but this seems like progress. Much of the hack did not exist in index.php and product_info.php. Still adding... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnus6 Posted January 5, 2007 Author Share Posted January 5, 2007 Progress has been made. Two of the words in Header Tag - English (in Admin section) are now black. Still no Meta tags but this seems like progress. Much of the hack did not exist in index.php and product_info.php. Still adding... In case anyone else runs into this same problem, Header Tags Controller is what has been added and conversation on what the hell is wrong with my store has proceeded with the Contribution's creator, Jack_mcs. http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?sho...815&st=3080 Fingers crossed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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