Adding Meta Descriptions to Taxonomy Pages
In the previous meta description entries I created a meta description field for my content type, altered my page.tpl to show the meta description if it was available and used the site $mission field to use as the front page meta description.
Now I need to alter it again to use a taxonomies term description as the meta description for those pages. I also added a title alteration for paginated pages.
The top portion of my page.tpl now (currently using zen theme)
<?php
$title_addon = '';
if ($_GET['page']>0){
$title_addon = $_GET['page'] +1;
$title_addon = ' - Page ' . $title_addon;
}
$meta = '';
if ($is_front) {
$meta = '<meta name="description" content="' . strip_tags($mission) . ' ' . $title_addon .'" />';
//using strip_tags instead of check_plain() as check_plain will convert markup into entities we just want stripped out
}elseif(isset($node->field_meta_description[0]['value']) && strlen($node->field_meta_description[0]['value'])>0) {
$meta = '<meta name="description" content="' . strip_tags($node->field_meta_description[0]['value']) . '" />';
}elseif(arg(0) == 'taxonomy' && arg(1) == 'term' && arg(2)>0){
$term_ob = taxonomy_get_term(arg(2));
$description = $term_ob->description;
if (strlen($description)>0){
$meta = '<meta name="description" content="' . strip_tags($description) . ' ' . $title_addon . '" />';
}else{
//Tags are created on the fly by authors and may not have a description use the term name to have something in
$meta = '<meta name="description" content="' . strip_tags($term_ob->name) . ' entries ' . $title_addon . '" />';
}
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="<?php print $language->language; ?>" lang="<?php print $language->language; ?>" dir="<?php print $language->dir; ?>">
<head>
<title><?php print $head_title . ' ' . $title_addon; ?></title>
<?php print $meta;?>
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