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Dgardner
Starting Member
USA
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 Posted - June 15 2005 : 10:07:53
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How do we add
individual title, mega tags, etc. to vpasp pages?
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devshb
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1904 Posts |
Posted - June 15 2005 : 10:35:09
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5.5 uses dynamic titles; you can turn that on via a config option (it's defaults to be off)
I think the option is in config>advanced
and is something like "xDynamicTitle"; just change that to Yes
and then go into config>merchant and enter your default title.
it doesn't use context-sensitive tags though, which is a shame.
the html file that holds your title tag should be:
<title><%shopdynamictitle%></title>
Simon Barnaby
Developer
[email protected]
www.BigYellowZone.com
Web Design, Online Marketing and VPASP addons
Edited by - devshb on June 15 2005 10:36:41 |
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Dgardner
Starting Member
USA
3 Posts |
Posted - June 15 2005 : 10:49:50
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How would you recommend we handle the meta tags for product pages? Will I have to create html pages for each product that I list? That would be a very big negative for the software :-(
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devshb
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1904 Posts |
Posted - June 15 2005 : 11:23:52
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There's lots of different ways of doing that without having to manually create separate tags/pages for each product. Some people have already posted some solutions to that elsewhere on the forum (not sure where though; do a search for tags and you should catch them).
I reckon the easiest way is to just use shopdynamictitle in the description meta tag in the same way that it uses it in the title. And you can use the products' keywords for the meta keywords (or break-out the shopdynamic title into separate words and just use that again), but that'd mean changing the dynamic title logic to also setup a new keyword variable.
ie in your shoppage_header.htm file (or, for example, if someone had implemented our panel splitter it'd be in panel_contents_tags.asp)
you'd change it from something like:
<meta NAME="description" CONTENT="We Sell Stuff.">
to something like:
<meta NAME="description" CONTENT="<%shopdynamictitle%>">
Simon Barnaby
Developer
[email protected]
www.BigYellowZone.com
Web Design, Online Marketing and VPASP addons |
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bme
Starting Member
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Tyssen
Starting Member
28 Posts |
Posted - June 20 2005 : 22:20:46
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5.5 uses dynamic titles; you can turn that on via a config option (it's defaults to be off)
I've been searching through the forums for the best way to implement dynamic titles/descriptions on our site and it seems like upgrading from 5.0 to 5.5 might be the only way to go.
But I'd like to know if 5.5 is a completely rewritten package or just a few additional files/modifications? Because I've spent quite a while rewriting various files to make them XHTML-compliant and to do away with tables in a lot of instances and I'm hesistant about upgrading if it's going to mean losing all that work or having to do it again.
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greatphoto
VP-CART Super User
USA
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Posted - June 24 2005 : 07:12:29
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Hi Tyssen-
v5.5 has many files that are changed over v5.0. Most have minor changes, but some are significantly different or new. Your concern over trying to incorporate your old fixes/customizations into the new upgraded files is a common (and very appropriate one). You can make this simpler by comparing your current files to the original ones you purchased. The differences you find will be the ones you want to consider incorporating into v5.5. A useful tool to do the compare for you is here:
http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/
Of course, you'll have to test and retest all your changes as you make the upgrade. You may find that some of your changes don't need to be ported as some things may be taken care of for you in v5.5.
For several of us who performed the upgrade from 5.0 to 5.5 with lots of porting of customizations, it took around 1-2 days.
You might want to hold off on upgrading if you are already past your 1 year free upgrade period. There are hints of a new version coming out soon.
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Tyssen
Starting Member
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Posted - June 28 2005 : 23:47:14
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You might want to hold off on upgrading if you are already past your 1 year free upgrade period. There are hints of a new version coming out soon.
Yeah, we are out of the upgrade period.
I ended up working out my own solution which involved adding an include to shopheaders.asp.
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