Mobile devices

[Music Man]

Hello all....

Google bots just crawled my site and sent me an email identifying issues regarding the use of mobile devices. One of them was in regards to setting viewport.....with this reference to several pages; "Add the viewport meta tag to your pages."

Can someone tell me what that "meta tag" should contain and where should it go? Main/index page only or on ALL pages....?

Thanks

MM

[rbarbour]

Putting it in the \includes\templates\YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME\common\html_header.php file will display the meta tag on all your pages.

For more information on the different recommendations for configurations visit google developers PageSpeed Insights

Hello all....

Google bots just crawled my site and sent me an email identifying issues regarding the use of mobile devices. One of them was in regards to setting viewport.....with this reference to several pages; "Add the viewport meta tag to your pages."

Can someone tell me what that "meta tag" should contain and where should it go? Main/index page only or on ALL pages....?

Thanks

MM

[Music Man]

Putting it in the \includes\templates\YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME\common\html_header.php file will display the meta tag on all your pages.

Thanks for the response.

Now I have the file downloaded and opened it.....Could you give me a suggestion as to where in that file to drop the "<meta name=viewport content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">" to make it work properly? That file is roughly 106 lines of code and I'm not that versed on where it would work best....

Thanks

MM

[rbarbour]

Place it below the rest of the meta name tags

Thanks for the response.

Now I have the file downloaded and opened it.....Could you give me a suggestion as to where in that file to drop the "<meta name=viewport content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">" to make it work properly? That file is roughly 106 lines of code and I'm not that versed on where it would work best....

Thanks

MM

[Music Man]

Place it below the rest of the meta name tags

I don't see any other references to "meta name" in that file for the template I am using........ When you posted it got me to wondering if the template that I use might have not used meta name references so I went back to the default template and looked at the header file for that template and the meta tag references are there.

Maybe I can figure out....but looking at the original where I should place it in the current template file that I use..

[Music Man]

OK....I got myself all confused....

There is NO html_header.php file in my custom template.....there is one in the default template....

The only thing in the \includes\templates\YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME\common\ folder are 2 files: tpl_footer.php and tpl_header.php.

I was looking in the tpl_header.php for the meta tag....and there are none....

Sooooooo is ZC using the default html_header.php? Or bypassing that altogether? Can I add the html_header.php file to my template custom folder and get it to work?

[Music Man]

UPDATE: OK I did some experiments and found that ZC was using the default "html_header.php " file....instead of 1 in the working template folder.....

I added the meta tag to the default "html_header.php " file.....it seems to work so I guess I will wait until the Google 'bug' crawls my site again to see if it likes it better now.....

Thanks for the help and for listening.....

[rbarbour]

Copy the default html_header.php file to the \includes\templates\YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME\common\ folder

and

Restore the default html_header.php file

All changes should be in the custom templates folder, otherwise upgrading will be a nightmare

UPDATE: OK I did some experiments and found that ZC was using the default "html_header.php " file....instead of 1 in the working template folder.....

I added the meta tag to the default "html_header.php " file.....it seems to work so I guess I will wait until the Google 'bug' crawls my site again to see if it likes it better now.....

Thanks for the help and for listening.....

[Music Man]

Copy the default html_header.php file to the \includes\templates\YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME\common\ folder

and

Restore the default html_header.php file

All changes should be in the custom templates folder, otherwise upgrading will be a nightmare

Ahhhhhh, thanks for the reminder....I almost forgot that little pearl of wisdom.....It's so easy to make that mistake that is so painful to correct later...