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Even though HTML metadata is not displayed on your site, it is used by search engines, social media platforms, and other web services. For the Sector Starter Kit we have preconfigured a few basic settings to get you started.
The <meta> tag - a part of your node's source or code - provides metadata to specify the way your content should be displayed. It provides additional information using, amongst others, page descriptions, keywords, and teaser images.
Required Drupal contribution modules
The Drupal Metatag module is part of the Sector Starter Kit, and includes more than 15 submodules for specific applications. Since Sector D8 beta 2, the Metatag: Open Graph submodule is activated by default.
Features and functionality
Your metadata configuration should be specific to your site based on your business objectives and your user needs. But there are a few things that most websites have in common, and the Starter Kit provides a set of tools and settings to support further configuration:
- A base set of metadata configuration using tokens to reuse your page titles and body summaries for HTML metadata, and
- An image style to allow for specific sizes for your social media images.
Related entities and configuration
Metadata configuration
<your-domain>/admin/config/media/image-styles/manage/social_media
| Type | Tag | Token |
|---|---|---|
| Global | canonical_url | [current-page:url] |
| Global | title | [current-page:title] | [site:name] |
|
Front page |
canonical_url | [site:url] |
| Front page | shortlink | [site:url] |
| 403 / 404 (also inherits meta tags from: Global) |
robots | noindex |
| 403 / 404 | canonical_url | [site:url] |
| 403 / 404 | shortlink | [site:url] |
| Content (also inherits meta tags from: Global) |
canonical_url | [site:url] |
| Content | description | [node:summary]* |
| Content | title | [node:title] | [site:name] |
| Content | og tags and twitter cards | We have preconfigured a few og and twitter card tags, please see {your site}/admin/config/search/metatag for details |
| Content: News ( also inherits meta tags from: Global, Content) |
og tags, twitter cards, and schema org tags | We have preconfigured a few og, twitter card and schema tags, please see {your site}/admin/config/search/metatag for details |
| Content Resources (optional) | Under review | Under review |
| Taxonomy terms** | module defaults | default mapping |
| User*** | module defaults | default mapping |
*)If your content type does not have a body field, you can add a content type specific metatag using a different text field or a default text.
**) OOTB taxonomy pages are deactivated and no metatags have been added to the the entity fields. Please review the setting, when to configure public taxonomy pages.
***) OOTB most Sector sites are expected to not have public user profiles no meta tags have been added to the entity fields
Social media image style
<your-domain>/admin/config/media/image-styles/manage/social_media
The social media image style is a helper style so that you can use an existing image in an extra large image style for Twitter cards and Facebook posts. More info can be found in The Sector demo theme and branding assets.
Preconfigured OG image tags
|
Type |
Tag |
Token |
|---|---|---|
|
Open graph |
og_image: |
[sector_media:opengraph_image] |
|
Open graph |
og_image_height: |
630 |
|
Open graph |
og_image_type: |
image/jpeg |
|
Open graph |
og_image_url: |
[sector_media:opengraph_image] |
|
Open graph |
og_image_width: |
1200 |