SEO optimization
Page titles and descriptions from a template — for search and messengers.
The page title and description are the first thing a shopper sees in search results and in the link preview when your page is shared in a messenger. Filling them in by hand for thousands of products is impossible, and if you leave them empty the search engine writes its own text, usually a poor one. Here you set a template once per kind of page and the text is composed for the whole catalogue.
What it does
- Keeps separate templates for the home page, catalogue sections, products, brands, tags, information pages and the shop's own search page.
- Drops the page name, shop name, product price, section and the number of products in a section into the template — each kind of page offers its own set of placeholders.
- Besides the title and description it sets keywords, the heading shown on the page itself and the picture used in link previews.
- Keeps pages that have no business in search out of it — the in-shop search results, for instance.
- Never overwrites manual work: if a product or section has its own title and description, those are used. A switch reverses this, so the template always takes precedence.
- Templates are kept separately for every storefront and every language of the shop.
What appears in the shop
This is what a shopper sees once it is installed.
- Wherever you place this tag in your design, the page text for customers appears — the one you wrote in "SEO → SEO optimization" in that language. For now the text is written for the home page. With no text the tag prints nothing and no empty block appears. In the bundled themes it already sits at the bottom of the home page; you can lay the block out yourself by putting the text into a variable — the tag accepts assign.
What’s new
The add-on description now explains the home page text: where to write it and how to show it in your theme with a single line.
What's new
The text for customers at the bottom of the home page is now written in the plugin itself: open "SEO → SEO optimization", pick the storefront, the language and the "Home" page — a "Text on the home page" field has appeared under the other fields. You type it in the usual editor: headings, lists, links, images. Each language has its own text, and so does each storefront.
The text appears on the site by itself: the bundled themes already have a place for it at the bottom of the home page. In your own theme it is printed with a single line — {seo_text}; if you want your own layout for the block, the tag can put the text into a variable. Until the text is written, nothing appears on the page — there will be no empty block. How to add it to your own theme is described in the reference: https://cartixx.com/docs/theme/data
Previously such text lived in the theme files — the bundled themes carried a placeholder and it had to be changed in the template.
After updating
Update the shop to version 2.58.0 or newer — the field and the output work from that version. If your theme shows a placeholder text at the bottom of the home page, write your own text in the plugin: it replaces the placeholder.
What's new
Titles and descriptions for blog pages are now set by a template, the same way as for products and categories. There are four page types — the blog feed, a blog category, the post itself and a tag page — each with its own placeholders.
The setting appears only in a store that has the Articles section. On an older store the add-on works as before and you will not see any extra fields.
Ready-made templates removed
The block with template examples is gone from the section: it took up the screen and gave little in return. The title and description templates themselves, the list of variables and the length counter are all still there.
The section in the new panel
Title and description templates are edited in the new control panel. The list of variables sits next to the form: click a variable and it goes into the field where your cursor was. A length counter shows when a title or description runs past the recommended size, and ready-made templates apply with one button.
An icon of its own
In the «Plugins» section and in the list of installed items the add-on now shows its own icon instead of an identical box, so you find the one you need at a glance. The icon appears on shops running version 1.30.0 and newer.
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