Dynamic Titles and Meta Tags

VPCART can dynamically change the title of the categories display, product display and automated

extended description display, based on the item being viewed.

VPCART can also automatically populate your meta tags.

Note: There is an extra database activity when using this facility.

First, you need to set the following in your shop configuration:

Xdynamictitle

Set this to Yes to turn on dynamic titles. If set to No, all pages will display thetitle in xtitle.

Xtitle

Change this to the title you wish to display when there is no dynamic

title available. The default is VPCart Storefront.

The dynamic title and meta tags are generated based on the following fields in your database.

You can now enter your desired meta tags into pages in VPCART.

The following sections are allowed for administrator to enter the meta tags :

1. Product pages

To setup meta tags for a product, you can go to Store > Products.In the edit product page, go to the Meta Informationsection.

If you did not enter the meta tags for the fields above, then VPCART will use the product fields below automatically:

Tag	Field Used
Title	cname
Description	cdescription
Keywords	keywords

2. Category pages

To setup meta tags for a category, you can go to Store > Categories.In the edit category page, go to the Meta Informationsection.

If you did not enter the meta tags for the fields above, then VPCART will use the category fields below automatically:

Tag	Field Used
Title	catdescription
Description	catmemo
Keywords	catdescription

3. Content pages

To setup meta tags for a content, you can go to store> Page Manager.In the edit content page, go to the Meta Informationsection.

If you did not enter the meta tags for the fields above, then VPCART will use the content fields below automatically:

Tag	Field Used
Title	message
Description	message2
Keywords	other1

4. News pages

To setup meta tags for news, you can go to Store> News Manager.In the edit news page, go to the Meta Informationsection.

If you did not enter the meta tags for the fields above, then VPCART will use the content fields below automatically:

Tag	Field Used
Title	message
Description	message
Keywords	other1

5. Blog pages

To setup meta tags for a blog, you can go to Store> Blog Manager.In the edit blog page, go to the Meta Informationsection.

If you did not enter the meta tags for the fields above, then VPCART will use the content fields below automatically:

Tag	Field Used
Title	message
Description	message
Keywords	other1

For your information, in Version 8.00, you can setup different meta tags if your store has different languages. So for example, if your store has 2 languages, English and France, you can enter each meta tags for both English and France through the edit record page. The meta tags translation is available for Products, Categories, Content page, News and Blogs.

If you have modified your headers and no longer have the dynamic titles code in the header, you

need to modify shoppage_header.htm as follows:

1. In file shoppage_header.htm, change the title value that you have in the HTML to the following:

<title><%shopdynamictitle "title"%> /title>

2. Set the Software Configuration variables as described above.

3. Add the lines below to your shoppage_header.htm file.