Limit Description By Number Of Characters
I see that Vanilla doesn't want to break the description (meta tag), so after a certain number of characters it looks for the first 'period', and marks the text as description.
But I would like to set it this way - - show 160 characters of text followed by '...' For example, like this:
I see that Vanilla doesn't want to break the description, so after a certain number of characters it looks for the first 'period', and marks the text as descri...
How do I do that?
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I posted this the other day, want me to give you the code?
Search google for truncate.js
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@422 : Thanks a lot for trying to help. But I was talking about the 'description' meta tag. i.e.
And I don't think it's a good idea to generate that (meta tags) with JavaScript/jQuery even if it's at all possible. Any PHP help please?
where did you say the meta description tag in your initial post ?
"
This META tag should contain 150 characters or less, and like the title META tag, your description should be relevant to the web page.
"
Basic SEO
@422 : Sorry about that. I didn't realize that it could be understood the other way.
Coming to the point, okay, then I want my meta description's content like this: 147 characters followed by...
How do i do that?
Why would you add ... for though ? its a meta tag.
I meant like this:
EDIT: Okay, I get your point. How do I do it without that at least?
On Dynamic metas ? or what ??
Ive never found vanilla that good with Metas.
You could use php.
And create a comprehensive meta file ( dynamic )
See: http://webuyscrap.com.au
We are running a dynamic metas system on this site for the client at the moment, it needs tweaking but we are running other tests to see how it performs on a la google.
If your description tags are pulled directly from forum pages, then handling it shouldnt be too complex.
However OG ( is generally for facebook ) so the use of dynamic content in this tag is easy to control, because ... it generally is user defined
Vanilla 2.1a automatically creates meta tags. It's just that I don't like how the description meta tag content is generated.
Some descriptions are short, some are fine. The PHP used looks for the first 'period' ( . ) after a certain number of characters and generates a description with that text. I want to alter it so that the description is simply 150 characters.
PS: I don't know PHP. If I did, I wouldn't be here.
Ok im on old vanilla version, i should upgrade huh
..edit ? 2.1 ?.
@422 : Yes. I'm running the unstable release. Reporting issues, and fixing some.
It isn't too unstable IMO, compared to v2.0.18.4.