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Meta Data in Blogs

Hi, I'm working on the SEO for a blog and need some help. On each post I have added tags until the meta and social section but when I view the page source they do not appear? Code below for post.php

<?php perch_blog_post(perch_get('s')); 

       # set up the variables
    $title       = $post['0']['postTitle'];
    $description = strip_tags($post['0']['excerpt']);
    if (isset($post[0]['fbimage'])) {
        $fbimage = $post[0]['fbimage'];
    } else {
        $fbimage = '';
    }

    # use the variables in the array value
    perch_page_attributes_extend(array(
        'description'    => $description,
        'og_description' => $description,
        'og_title'       => $title,
        'og_type'        => 'article',
        'sharing_image'  => $fbimage,
        'og_author'      => 'https://www.facebook.com/JohnMarkFilms',
    ));?>

global.header.php code:

    <head>
      <meta charset="utf-8">
      <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
      <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
      <title><?php perch_layout_var('title'); ?></title>
      <!-- Bootstrap CSS -->
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bootstrap.min.css">
      <!-- Font -->
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/font-awesome.min.css">
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/elegant-font.css">
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/linearicons.css">
      <!-- REVOLUTION STYLE SHEETS -->
      <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="revolution/css/settings.css">
      <!-- REVOLUTION LAYERS STYLES -->
      <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="revolution/css/layers.css">
      <!-- REVOLUTION NAVIGATION STYLES -->
      <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="revolution/css/navigation.css">
      <!-- OWL CAROUSEL
         ================================================== --> 
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/owl.carousel.css">
      <!-- SCROLL BAR MOBILE MENU
         ================================================== --> 
         <?php
    perch_page_attribute('description', array(
        'template' => 'seo.html'
    ));
?>

      <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/jquery.mCustomScrollbar.css" />
      <?php
    $domain        = 'https://'.$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"];
    $url           = $domain.$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
    $sitename      = "John Mark Films";
    $twittername   = "@johnmarkfilms";
    $sharing_image = '/images/collection.jpg';

    PerchSystem::set_var('domain',$domain);
    PerchSystem::set_var('url',$url);
    PerchSystem::set_var('sharing_image',$sharing_image);
    PerchSystem::set_var('twittername',$twittername);

    perch_page_attributes(array(        
      'template' => 'default.html'    
    ));
    ?>


      <!-- Main Style -->
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
      <!-- color scheme -->
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="switcher/demo.css" type="text/css">
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="switcher/colors/yellow.css" type="text/css" id="colors">
      <!-- Favicons
         ================================================== -->
      <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.png">
   </head>

Thanks!
Jade Marling

Jade Marling 0 points

  • 4 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

What order to these appear in?
Jade Marling

Jade Marling 0 points

4 years ago 
<?php include('admin/runtime.php');?>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="">
   <?php
    $title = perch_blog_post_field(perch_get('s'), 'postTitle', true);
    perch_layout('global.header', array(
      'title'=>$title
    ));
    ?>
   <body>
<?php include('includes/analyticstracking.php'); ?>
      <?php include('includes/navigation.php');?>

            <?php perch_blog_post(perch_get('s')); 

       # set up the variables
    $title       = $post['0']['postTitle'];
    $description = strip_tags($post['0']['excerpt']);
    if (isset($post[0]['fbimage'])) {
        $fbimage = $post[0]['fbimage'];
    } else {
        $fbimage = '';
    }

    # use the variables in the array value
    perch_page_attributes_extend(array(
        'description'    => $description,
        'og_description' => $description,
        'og_title'       => $title,
        'og_type'        => 'article',
        'sharing_image'  => $fbimage,
        'og_author'      => 'https://www.facebook.com/JohnMarkFilms',
    ));?>

The social is first with tags underneath. Neither are working.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

Where does perch_page_attributes() get called in relation to this? After it, right?
Jade Marling

Jade Marling 0 points

4 years ago

Ah right, is that what I'm missing? I've put it in straight after perch_page_attributes_extend and still nothing
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

You do need to actually output the page attributes, yes.

If you add <perch:showall /> to the attribute template you're using at that point, do you see your og_ values available in the template?
Jade Marling

Jade Marling 0 points

4 years ago

So now I've got

<?php include('admin/runtime.php');?>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="">
   <?php
    $title = perch_blog_post_field(perch_get('s'), 'postTitle', true);
    perch_layout('global.header', array(
      'title'=>$title
    ));




    ?>
   <body>
<?php include('includes/analyticstracking.php'); ?>
      <?php include('includes/navigation.php');?>

            <?php perch_blog_post(perch_get('s')); 

       # set up the variables
    $title       = $post['0']['postTitle'];
    $description = strip_tags($post['0']['excerpt']);
    if (isset($post[0]['fbimage'])) {
        $fbimage = $post[0]['fbimage'];
    } else {
        $fbimage = '';
    }

    # use the variables in the array value
    perch_page_attributes_extend(array(
        'description'    => $description,
        'og_description' => $description,
        'og_title'       => $title,
        'og_type'        => 'article',
        'sharing_image'  => $fbimage,
        'og_author'      => 'https://www.facebook.com/JohnMarkFilms',
    ));
        perch_page_attributes(array(
        'template' => 'default.html'
    ));
       ?>

Still nothing, I do want the og values as well
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

What does <perch:showall /> output in that default.html template?
Jade Marling

Jade Marling 0 points

4 years ago

This is default.html

    <perch:template path="pages/attributes/seo.html" />
    <perch:template path="pages/attributes/facebook.html" />
    <perch:template path="pages/attributes/twitter.html" />
<perch:showall />

seo.html

<meta name="description" content="<perch:pages id="description" label="Description" type="textarea" size="xs" escape="true" count="chars" />" />
<meta name="keywords" content="<perch:pages id="keywords" label="Keywords" type="textarea" size="xs" escape="true" help="Separate with commas" count="chars" />" />
<meta name="robots" content="<perch:pages id="noindex" label="Do not index" type="checkbox" value="noindex" append="," divider-before="Search engine indexing" /><perch:pages id="nofollow" label="Do not follow links" type="checkbox" value="nofollow" append="," /><perch:pages id="nosnippet" label="Do not show a snippet" type="checkbox" value="nosnippet" append="," />" />

facebook.html

<meta property="og:site_name" content="<perch:pages id="sitename" type="hidden" />" />
    <meta property="og:url" content="<perch:pages id="url" type="hidden" />" />
    <meta property="og:title" content="<perch:pages id="og_title" label="Social title" type="text" escape="true" help="Title for this document with no branding or site name" divider-before="Facebook Open Graph Tags" />" />
    <meta property="og:description" content="<perch:pages id="og_description" label="Social description" type="textarea" size="s" escape="true" />" />
    <perch:if exists="og_image">
    <meta property="og:image" content="<perch:pages id="domain" type="hidden" /><perch:pages id="og_image" label="Image when shared" help="Should be at least 1200x630" type="image" width="1200" />" />
    <perch:else />
    <meta property="og:image" content="<perch:pages id="domain" type="hidden" /><perch:pages id="sharing_image" type="hidden" />" />
    </perch:if>
    <perch:if exists="og_type">
    <meta property="og:type" content="<perch:pages id="og_type" label="Facebook type" type="select" options="article,book,profile,website,video,music" allowempty="true" />" />
    </perch:if>
    <perch:if exists="og_author">
    <meta property="article:author" content="<perch:pages id="og_author" type="hidden" />" />
    </perch:if>

twitter.html

<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" />
    <meta name="twitter:site" content="<perch:pages id="twittername" type="hidden" />" />
    <meta name="twitter:title" content="<perch:pages id="og_title" label="Social title" type="text" escape="true" help="Title for this document with no branding or site name" />" />
    <meta name="twitter:description" content="<perch:pages id="og_description" label="Social description" type="textarea" size="s" escape="true" />" />
    <perch:if exists="og_image">
    <meta property="twitter:image" content="<perch:pages id="domain" type="hidden" /><perch:pages id="og_image" label="Image when shared" help="Should be at least 1200x630" type="image" width="1200" />" />
    </perch:if>
    <meta name="twitter:url" content="<perch:pages id="url" type="hidden" />" />
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

Please let me know if I'm not being clear enough, but what does it output?
Jade Marling

Jade Marling 0 points

4 years ago

Nothing. It outsputs everything on the other pages but not the blog posts.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

Is it finding the template? What does debug say?
Jade Marling

Jade Marling 0 points

4 years ago 
SELECT * FROM perch2_blog_posts WHERE postStatus='Published' AND postDateTime<='2017-04-06 14:25:00' AND postSlug='2017-04-03-lisa-wyn'
[23] SELECT DISTINCT settingID, settingValue FROM perch2_settings WHERE userID=0
[1] SELECT * FROM perch2_blog_sections ORDER BY sectionTitle ASC
[1] SELECT * FROM perch2_blogs ORDER BY blogTitle ASC
Using template: /addons/apps/perch_blog/templates/blog/post.html
[1] SELECT * FROM perch2_pages WHERE pagePath='/post.php' LIMIT 1
[1] SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS DISTINCT tbl.* FROM ( SELECT idx.itemID, main.*, idx2.indexValue as sortval FROM perch2_blog_index idx JOIN perch2_blog_posts main ON idx.itemID=main.postID AND idx.itemKey='postID' JOIN perch2_blog_index idx2 ON idx.itemID=idx2.itemID AND idx.itemKey='postID' AND idx2.indexKey='_id' WHERE 1=1 AND ((idx.indexKey='postSlug' AND idx.indexValue='2017-04-03-lisa-wyn')) AND idx.itemID=idx2.itemID AND idx.itemKey=idx2.itemKey ) as tbl WHERE (postStatus='Published' AND postDateTime<='2017-04-06 14:25:00' ) GROUP BY itemID, sortval ORDER BY sortval ASC LIMIT 0, 10
[1] SELECT FOUND_ROWS() AS `count`
[1] Using template: /addons/apps/perch_blog/templates/blog/post.html

Array
(
    [type] => 8
    [message] => Undefined variable: post
    [file] => /home/linweb39/j/johnmarkfilms.co.uk/user/htdocs/post.php
    [line] => 23
)
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

What are you doing on line 23 of post.php ?
Jade Marling

Jade Marling 0 points

4 years ago

$description = strip_tags($post['0']['excerpt']);
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

Where is $post populated? I can't see that in any of the code you've shown.
Jade Marling

Jade Marling 0 points

4 years ago

I'm not sure, I just got the code for it off the docs. What do I need to set $post as?
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

Where did you get it from?
Jade Marling

Jade Marling 0 points

4 years ago

I'm not really sure. I can't find it now. How do I fix it?
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

It looks like you're missing the start of the code - so I'm not sure what you're trying to do here.
Jade Marling

Jade Marling 0 points

4 years ago

All I want is to add meta data and og to blog posts :)