Photo Keywords + Title into meta head tags

bugman · February 16th, 2006, 07:44 PM

Here's what I and many others would like:

Title tag - instead of "Photo Gallery - Photo Title" as the title of the webpage, would like "Photo Title - Photo Gallery" to better aid in SEO.

Meta keywords - photo keywords !

Meta description - photo description !

Now, I don't expect anyone to write this out for me. I'm pretty good with analysing and figurings things out to get to work, but I have no idea where to start with this. Which photo post template do i begin to decipher? What php code represents "photo description", "photo keywords" and "photo title" ?

any more info that anyone can provide would be a great assistanace not just to me but to others i am sure.

thanks
bugman

bugman · February 16th, 2006, 07:51 PM

i found this on another post

ChuckS: "Powered by Reviewpost is going to show in your header as thats part of the header print in our files. You can edit pp-inc.php and remove 3 times Powered by Reviewpost from that file but you can not remove the copyright in the footer."

That's what I'd like to do - instead of removing "Powered by", i'd simply like to put in that file the $phototitle (or whatever it is) in front of the "Powered by" or replace it with the overall title of my gallery.

any thoughts ?

bugman · February 16th, 2006, 08:01 PM

I found this:

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ChuckS: "Well you'll probally need to make your headtags file a php file and do something like this

<?

if ( THIS_SCRIPT == "showphoto" ) {

echo <<<PPPRINT

<meta name="keywords" content="$title,$keywords" />
<meta name="description" content="$description" />

PPPRINT;

}

?>

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then more by ChuckS: "Open showphoto and and grab the variables and replace my examples (above) with the proper ones. My posts are guidelines to follow not the hack. Remember this is a how do I forum not write me a hack forum."

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Chuck S · February 17th, 2006, 02:51 AM

Your script already passed the title to the page title

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Familiarize yourself with the printheader function and how it works and any modification questions you have you can ask in the mod forums.

Garrynz · February 17th, 2006, 05:06 PM

I will get around posting how I made my site SEO friendly one of these days, at the moment I have to many queries and other clutter that I need to get rid of. Most of the editing I did was to do with $theader in pp-inc.php

http://www.itraveluk.co.uk/photos/sh...ry/cat/540.php

Still needs a bit of work.

bugman · February 17th, 2006, 06:26 PM

ChuckS, how do i familiarize myself with the printheader function?

Chuck S · February 18th, 2006, 08:05 AM

Well the printheader function has a $titlereplace function which passes the title of a page variable and you can make it in showphoto the photo title which we already do

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Thats why I said familiarize yourself with the code and what it does so you know what you can and can not do.

bugman · February 18th, 2006, 08:23 AM

Thanks. can you point me in the direction of what files i should be tooling with? pp_inc ?

since there are meta keywords and meta descriptions defaults already without needing a headtags, can't i simply edit this php file ?

Chuck S · February 18th, 2006, 08:39 AM

pp-inc.php is where the function is but depending on what your doing all depends on what you need to modify.

bugman · March 5th, 2006, 01:37 PM

*bump*

still banging my head trying to figure this out. anybody ?

Chuck S · March 5th, 2006, 03:54 PM

The easiest way to do this is to use an external headtags.php file and place a conditional like maybe this?

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