Where Should Meta Elements Be Placed?

**Donn** · 14 Feb 2009, 01:28 AM

OK....

I see that ZC generates a title for all pages, and meta tags, as as well as descriptions, may be added easily through the admin.

I was wondering....where should I place any other meta elements that I require to be processed on ALL pages?

Is the Footer.php file a good place? I am guessing that that will work, but i wonder if there is another place that may be more appropriate.

Thanks, and have a good weekend everyone!!!!!!!!

Donn

**tony_sar** · 14 Feb 2009, 01:36 AM

includes / languages /english , meta_tags.php

you can define your home page meta tags there , if you look closely you will see that you can define metatags for other pages there , such as contact us , EZPages , etc..

also , for categories / products , you can create metatags from with in admin section .. by clicking on radiation

icon.

hope this helps out a bit .

**Donn** · 14 Feb 2009, 02:11 AM

Originally Posted by tony_sar

includes / languages /english , meta_tags.php

you can define your home page meta tags there , if you look closely you will see that you can define metatags for other pages there , such as contact us , EZPages , etc..

also , for categories / products , you can create metatags from with in admin section .. by clicking on radiation

icon.

hope this helps out a bit .

Thanks, Tony....

I found the 'favicon.ico' option on the meta_tag.php file, so I set up my favicon.
Thanks...I couldn't find that either!!

But the rest of the meta_tags.php file seems to be exclusively for keywords, descriptions, and titles.

How do I add other sorts of meta tags, that AREN'T the desciprion or keywords?

**tony_sar** · 14 Feb 2009, 02:35 AM

can you give me example of other meta tags ?

**mprough** · 14 Feb 2009, 04:19 AM

I was wondering....where should I place any other meta elements that I require to be processed on ALL pages?

Is the Footer.php file a good place? I am guessing that that will work, but i wonder if there is another place that may be more appropriate.

Meta elements of any kind cannot reside in the footer... They have to be in the <head></head> of the document.

You would additional head elements in the template override for includes/templates/your-template/common/html_header.php

But be careful, much of that file is dynamic and easy to break apart when adding other elements.

~Melanie

**Donn** · 14 Feb 2009, 06:40 AM

Originally Posted by tony_sar

can you give me example of other meta tags ?

There are a few others, such as Author, Classification, Copyright, Rating, Robots, and more.....

Originally Posted by mprough

Meta elements of any kind cannot reside in the footer... They have to be in the <head></head> of the document.

You would additional head elements in the template override for includes/templates/your-template/common/html_header.php

But be careful, much of that file is dynamic and easy to break apart when adding other elements.

~Melanie

Thanks Melanie....I actually realized after typing the above post that the footer was within the <body> section of the document, and therefore not a place (at all) to stick any meta tags.

I then set about trying to find PHP files containing the <head> tag, but I left for a few hours, and you responded before I could even search for the correct file.

Thank you for your assistance! You surely saved me much time I can now spend being stumped by other ZC stuff...

Donn

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