xfish meta (plugin for meta tags)
Update:
I have improved on xfish_meta a lot and renamed it to Another Wordpress Meta Plugin. Please use new plugin instead of xfish.
Download: xfish_meta_0.8.tgz ,xfish_meta_0.8.phps
Old Versions: xfish_meta_0.7.tgz ,xfish_meta_0.7.phps
With xfish_meta you can easily insert META information into your posts and pages. Internally, these are stored as custom fields for posts/pages, so you can edit them with the built-in mechanism for custom fields. But you don’t have to. Starting with 0.7 you get easy to use text fields for descriptions and keywords that get updated every time you save your post or page, and 0.8 brought this for pages, too.
Please enjoy and don’t forget to give feedback on the new release!
With xfish_meta you can easily insert META information, like keywords and description, into your posts. When editing your post, just scroll to the “Custom Fields”, open them, and insert a custom field for keywords (comma-separated) and description.
Starting with version 0.6, xfish_meta puts out meta tags for single posts only.
Features:
- You don’t have to mess around with custom fields anymore. Whenever you edit/write a post there are text input lines for keywords and description which you can use. Of course, under the hood these are still saved as custom fields, so you can access them as before if you prefer.
- Xfish_meta will not only output the meta information for single posts but for every number of conglomerated posts (e.g., index page, category pages, archives etc.) I still feel that this is the right thing to do. There are a myriad of other ways how to do this, though. Feel free to change the code in any way you like (and open source the result).
Compatibility: Xfish_meta works with wordpress 2.0.4, of course it should work with older versions and newer ones too.
Screenshot: (This is a real old one, for wordpress 1.5.x, and you don’t have to use this anymore, not even for your pages)
October 7th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
Hey, nice and easy plugin but here is some problem, how to set keywords and description for my main index page blog? because i can’t do it from admin panel…think need add some php code like “if”….how to fix it?
October 7th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
and another:
i think better add function like:
if no set any description/keywords to any pages/posts - meta can be generate from main setting like usually
if custom field set - generate custom data…
it will be better…
October 7th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
[…] Important ! WordPress-ul nu ofera “by default” posibilitatea crearii metatag-urilor pentru fiecare pagina in parte, aici intervine un plugin numit XFish Meta. Cu acest plugin veti putea da fiecarei pagini o descriere si cuvintele cheie dorite prin definirea unor campuri “custom fileds” keywords si description. Rezultatul va arata asa: […]
October 7th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
> meta can be generate from main setting like usually
And where would you set/store this setting?
There are at least three places where lots of posts occur:
- index page
- category pages
- archive pages
- search pages
- wordpress pages (not posts)
What would you display in these cases?
October 8th, 2006 at 5:29 am
1) > And where would you set/store this setting?
Maybe need add new option special for xfish configurate? and add here defaul setting if no data keawords/description for any other pages, posts etc
About my first problem, i hope you understand what i mean, look into your main blog page and you see - and no meta here for main page.
2)About place where nice to be add meta:
- index page
- category pages
- archive pages
- wordpress pages (not posts)
For other any pages setting can be default like i said in p 1 (example for any pages from other plugin etc)
October 10th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
no idea how to fix index page?
October 16th, 2006 at 3:42 am
Fantastic plugin, Many thanks.
October 17th, 2006 at 1:44 am
So, new ver 0.7 not work with old data from ver 6.0, example when i tryed edit the custom filed from single page - page not saved data in the custom filed, how to fix it?
October 19th, 2006 at 10:58 am
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October 25th, 2006 at 6:20 am
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October 29th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
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November 1st, 2006 at 6:15 am
Hi
when i download xfish_meta_0.8.tgz i activated in my admin section but its still says 0.7 version ?
November 1st, 2006 at 8:57 am
Yes, I got the version String wrong
Fixed. You don’t need to update again, because it was really just the version string, the functionality was 0.8
November 5th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
[…] <meta name="description" content="<?php the_title(); ?> at <?php bloginfo(’name’); ?> <?php the_excerpt(); ?>" /> <meta name="keywords" content="<?php the_title(); ?> at <?php bloginfo(’name’); ?>. " /> That at least generates a meta-description, which to me is the more important of the 2 tags meta description and meta keywords - especially for avoiding Google’s duplicate content filters. However, there are meta-tag generators out there for Wordpress. I’m currently playing around with the Xfish one, as I can control tags per page - quite important in a client install of a CMS - but there’s quite a few to choose from: Add Meta Tags - Adds the post?s categories and the post?s excerpt as keywords and description meta tags respectively, while viewing single posts. AutoMeta - Automatically generates and publishes Technorati Tags and Meta Keywords based on the content of your post (it utilises the MySQL full text index for word scoring). Once generated, tags can be hand-finished to ensure pertinence. Category Tagging - Provides a tag cloud and related posts. When using this plugin, you can use the WordPress’ categories as tags — no additional tagging plugin is needed. Creative Commons Configurator - Lets you set a CC license for your blog and set options to include licensing info in the blog header (RDF metadata), after the post’s body (HTML) and in the syndicated content (Atom, RSS2, RDF) through the CC RSS module. All this is done from a configuration page in the Administration Panel. Custom Field GUI - Enables the automated creation of form element user interface for entering Post’ custom field(s). FOAF Header - Add a FOAF link to your page’s header. FOAF Output - Personal profile page with friends (XFN) and interests, FOAF RDF/XML profile including trust statements, and extended RSS (1.0) output. Get Custom Field Values - Easily retrieve and control the display of any custom field values/meta data for posts. Head META Description - Automatically add a meta description tag to posts, Pages, categories and elsewhere on your blog. Fully customizable. HeadMeta - Provides per-post custom <link> and <meta> tags. Jerome?s Keywords - Associate keywords with your posts. Jerome?s Keywords: Related Posts - This Plugin uses Jerome?s Keywords and presents related posts according to the tags (keywords) of the current post. Jerome’s Keywords Manager - Manage keywords entered via Jerome’s Keywords. KeyCloud Widgets - Sidebar widgets to display your Jerome’s Keywords in various forms, including the venerable tag cloud. Keywords - Append keywords into Meta tags from ‘keywords’ custom field. META Relationship Links - Adds START, FIRST and LAST rel(ationship) link tags to your blog, as well as PREV(ious) and NEXT for individual posts. myStatus - Creates a subpanel of the Dashboard that allows you to create a number of fields to specify your current status and insert it into your templates. RSD 1.0 - Adds RSD support to WordPress. Tags in the Head - Tags in the Head attempts to make your website both more machine and human readable by using the ?Tags? you specify (from Jerome’s Keywords or Ultimate Tag Warrior) as META keywords in a page?s header. It also allows you to customize the meta description?s for various parts of your site. Tags in the Head combines good SEO with commonsense organisation using tags. Userextra - Extends user profiles to include admin-defined attributes, and provides for category access controls with per-user granularity. Usermeta - Adds API for WordPress 1.5 so that arbitrary meta data can be associated to users. Xfish_meta - Allows the inclusion of meta tags like keywords and description __________________ Search Engine Optimisation consultant Need search engine traffic? I can help: Britecorp SEO services […]
November 9th, 2006 at 9:04 am
Hi.
The plugin is active and i’m able to add the keywords to the posts.
The problem is i don’t see them anywhere in the source code.
Andy
November 18th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
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December 4th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
thank for the plugin. im using it now in my site:
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December 24th, 2006 at 3:19 am
[…] Just incase something goes wrong :p, just testing a new plugin for wordpress which can be found: Here. The aim and idea of the plugin is to allow you to create your own meta keywords and description per blog entry. And seeing as a lot of time is spent on this blog and that we aim to update it daily, as much possible optimisation on-page, that we have control over can only be good, so just testing this out […]
February 19th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
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February 20th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Hi..
This plugin not showing update action in my blog site…. what went wrong….
February 21st, 2007 at 1:34 am
Nakul, what do you mean by “update action”? Where exactly are you? Btw., xfish is very old. I recommend Another Wordpress Meta Plugin (link in the post above).