[Koha] Koha 20.05 - Adding a description meta tag to <head>

Tue Jan 5 09:06:54 NZDT 2021

Hi all,

The jquery wasn't picked up by Google; however, I upgraded to 20.11 and
took advantage of the new syspref that allows you to insert a meta
description in Opacusercss. It was picked up by Google after a few days.
Yay!

Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, BMus Hons.
Library: library.craigbutosi.ca

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021, 3:06 PM Craig Butosi <cbutosi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The jquery wasn't picked up by Google; however, I upgraded to 20.11 and
> took advantage of the new syspref that allows you to insert a meta
> description in Opacusercss. It was picked up by Google after a few days.
> Yay!
>
> C
>
> Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, BMus Hons.
> Library: library.craigbutosi.ca
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021, 1:11 PM Elaine Bradtke <eb at efdss.org> wrote:
>
>> Just curious what the result was.  I'm interested in trying it myself.
>> We just got a 'no description' flag on two catalogue records (out of
>> thousands). The working theory is it's really flagging the whole catalogue,
>> but the bot only  looked at two records.
>> Elaine
>> VWML <https://vwml.org>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 10:30 AM Craig Butosi <cbutosi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Alvaro,
>>>
>>> Thank you for this. Wasn't sure if a jquery stanza would be picked up by
>>> Googlebot or not. I'll do something like,
>>>
>>> //Insert description meta tag in <head>
>>> $(head).append('<meta name="description" content="{description of content
>>> here}" />');
>>>
>>> in OpacUserJS and see what happens.
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, B Mus (Hons)
>>> Library: library.craigbutosi.ca
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 1:14 PM Alvaro Cornejo <cornejo.alvaro at gmail.com
>>> >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi Craig
>>> >
>>> > You can do it either way
>>> >
>>> > However, it is always better to avoid modifying koha code to avoid
>>> > conflicts when upgrading/updating koha versions.
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> >
>>> > Alvaro
>>> >
>>> >
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>>> > Le dim. 21 juin 2020 à 11:06, Craig Butosi <cbutosi at gmail.com> a
>>> écrit :
>>> >
>>> >> Hi all,
>>> >> Running Koha 20.05 on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic).
>>> >>
>>> >> I was interested in adding a description meta tag in my instance of
>>> >> Koha for Google indexing reasons.  It looks like the included meta
>>> >> tags as part of a Koha package install are located here:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> /usr/share/koha/htdocs/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/en/includes/doc-head-close.inc
>>> >>
>>> >> Would it be better to inject the description meta tag using a jQuery
>>> >> stanza in OpacUserJs, or edit the doc-head-close.inc file directly?
>>> >>
>>> >> Many thanks,
>>> >>
>>> >> Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, B Mus (Hons)
>>> >> Library: library.craigbutosi.ca
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