Extension:GoogleRichCards

**MediaWiki extensions manual**
GoogleRichCards; Release status: beta
Implementation	User interface
Description	MediaWiki extension for automated Google Rich Cards generation
Author(s)	IgorShishkintalk
Latest version	0.2 (2025-07-28)
MediaWiki	1.43+
PHP	8.1+
	Tags seo, meta, google rich cards
	Hooks used BeforePageDisplay; ParserFirstCallInit;
Licence	GNU General Public License 2.0 only
Download	GitHub: project page; git repository URL; commit history; ; Note:; No localisation updates are; provided by translatewiki.net. ; Readme

The GoogleRichCards extension automatically generates Google Rich Cards in JSON+LD format for MediaWiki article pages.

Installation

Download and place the file(s) in a directory called GoogleRichCards in your extensions/ folder.
Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
```
wfLoadExtension( 'GoogleRichCards' );
```
Clear the cache of your browser
Clear MediaWiki page cache (if enabled)
Reload any MediaWiki article page
Check the HTML source and confirm the presence of following lines before </head> (values could differ according to the page content):

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
	"@context": "http://schema.org",
	"@type": "Article",
	"mainEntityOfPage": {
		"@type": "WebPage",
		"@id": "<current page URL>"
	},
	"author": {
		"@type": "Person",
		"name": "<first revision author>"
	},
	"headline": "<current page title>",
	"dateCreated": "2016-05-04T08:20:51+00:00",
	"datePublished": "2016-05-04T08:20:51+00:00",
	"discussionUrl": "<current page talk link>",
	"dateModified": "2016-06-05T01:12:10+00:00",
	"image": {
		"@type": "ImageObject",
		"url": "<first image on the article or $wgLogo>",
		"height": <height>,
		"width": <width>
	},
	"publisher": {
		"@type": "Organization",
		"name": "<wiki name>",
		"logo": {
			"@type": "ImageObject",
			"url": "<logo URL made of $wgServer + $wgLogo>"
		}
	},
	"description": "<page title>"
}
</script>

Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

This extension has three configuration variables which control what (if anything) the extension does. By default annotations are enabled for pages in content namespaces and the WebSite annotations are also enabled, but event annotations and the <event> parser tag are not enabled.

Name	Description	Default
`$wgGoogleRichCardsAnnotateArticles`	Enable annotations for articles (content pages)?	`true`
`$wgGoogleRichCardsAnnotateEvents`	Enable annotations for events + enable the `<event>` parser hook?	`false`
`$wgGoogleRichCardsAnnotateWebSite`	Enable WebSite annotations?	`true`