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Meta Tags not working
I have WordPress 2.6.2 and HeadSpace 3.5.7
I on the Headspace page settings I have Global settings for description and meta tags. These then show up on teh Home Page setting. (by the way the entry boxes for these are two wide for the page layout).
the descripotin show up cut off on my Home Page and the meta tags are not there at all.
www.macgregorfamilyadventures.com
any suggestions?
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Posted 1 month ago by Key Master
Tags are shown according to your theme. If you are referring to keywords this is a separate module that must be enabled and can be linked to your tags.
The entry box does not appear too wide on my setup so if you could provide more details about your system then I will see if there's any changes I can make
Posted 1 month ago by Member
Thanks for your response. I am refering to the meta description and meta keywords that I want to display in each page and am trying to set up in the Headspace page settings.
Problem 1:
On the Home page I get this:
<meta name="description" content="The young adult MacGregor Family Adventure Series is the story of Dr. Jack MacGregor, a zoologist, his wife Mavis, and his chilren Chris, Heather, and" />
It is set as:
The young adult MacGregor Family Adventure Series is the story of Dr. Jack MacGregor, a zoologist, his wife Mavis, and his chilren Chris, Heather, and Ryan. Jack MacGregor is on a year trip to sites around the world to study endangerd species. He takes his family along and they always seem to find adventure.
So it shows only part of the description I entered.
Problem 2:
Yes I want key words and not tags. I went to the Page Modules page, dragged the keyword module to the Simple group and made sure the check box was set in that module and save. When a revist that page the keyword module is listed with the check box checked.
I then when to the Page Settings to copy what I put in tag to keywords, but the keyword field did not show up.
Problem 3:
On the Page Settings page, when I click on Global Settings, the files (all three that I can see - Page Title, Description, Tags all exented past the blue box.
Thanks for any help.
Posted 1 month ago by Member
re: Problem 2 above.
So, I did notice now that I have moved the Keyword module into Simple, eventhough the field does not show on the Page Settings, the values entered in the tag field are now showing up as meta keywords.
<meta name="keywords" content="adventure,book,caymen gold,czar of alaska,devil's breath volcano,elephant tears,falcon of abydos,macgregor,richard trout,series,sign of the dragon,young adult" />
Is that what I should expect? I was expecting a new field to enter meta key words in.
thanks
Posted 1 month ago by Member
re: Problem 1 above Description cutting off - I saw another post where you anwered this. I am changing the length in the description setting. But I had these problems.
1) I change the length and clicked save and then looked at the page and there was no description. Looked back at the setting and it is now 0. I changed it, clicked save, and the looked again and it was back at zero.
2) I then tried changing it, clicking save in the module and then clicking save on the bottom of the page, it then lost all the modules listed int he simple and advanced section. I added them back and it did show the modules I added. Still cant save the description length.
Thanks
Posted 1 month ago by Key Master
If you checked 'use tags' in the keywords module then it will use tags to define the keywords. If you leave this option unchecked then you will have a seperate keywords-only box - keywords and tags are not the same unless you configure them to be so.
Try as I might I cannot reproduce the problem with the description length. There must be something specific in your sites environment that is causing this effect.
Posted 1 month ago by Member
Ok I uncheck it and it all seems ok now. Thanks for the help learning how to use the pluging. I upgraded to the new version today and I still can't update the length of the description.
Posted 1 month ago by Member
You can got to www.macgregorfamilyadventure.com/wp-admin and log in as test, test and check out these issues:
1) not saving the length for the description
2) fields on the page settings display too long for the page layout (not a real problem just looks bad)
3) problem displaying google analytics
thanks. I will remove the test account after you use it.
Posted 1 month ago by Key Master
I've discovered that these are all caused by some weirdness with IE. Version 3.5.10 should solve them.
Posted 1 month ago by Member
Yes the new version did sovle the problem of saving the page settings.
The fields still show as too long on for the page layout.
You can see it on www.macgregorfamilyadventures.com/wp-admin test,test.
Thanks so much.
Posted 1 month ago by Key Master
That login doesnt work. Bear in mind this is a public forum so anyone can read these details. If you want to send me some updated details then they would be better sent via an email.
Posted 1 month ago by Member
I understand it is public. If you would like to look at the problem then contact me at dnorth@mbopartners.com
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