Extension:WikiSEO

MediaWiki extensions manual

WikiSEO Release status: stable
Implementation	Parser function
Description	Allows to add common SEO Meta-Tags.
Author(s)	Octfxtalk
Latest version	2.4.1 (2020-01-11)
MediaWiki	1.31+
PHP	7.1+
Database changes	No
Composer	octfx/wiki-seo
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	GitHub: project page git repository URL [help] commit history Note: No localisation updates are provided by translatewiki.net .
Parameters $wgWikiSeoDefaultImage $wgGoogleSiteVerificationKey $wgFacebookAppID $wgBingSiteVerificationKey $wgYandexSiteVerificationKey $wgAlexaSiteVerificationKey $wgPinterestSiteVerificationKey $wgNortonSiteVerificationKey $wgTwitterSiteHandle $wgMetadataGenerators $wgWikiSeoDefaultImage $wgWikiSeoDefaultLanguage $wgTwitterCardType
Hooks used ParserFirstCallInit BeforePageDisplay
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The WikiSEO extension allows you to replace, append or prepend the html title tag content, and allows you to add common SEO meta keywords and a meta description.

Version 2.0 is not a drop-in replacement for v1.2.2 (the last version before this fork).

Version 2.3.1 fixes a bug in the generated schema.org search action url. Please update to the newest version of this extension.

Installation

• Download, extract and place the file(s) in a directory called WikiSEO in your extensions/ folder.

• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:

  wfLoadExtension( 'WikiSEO' );
  

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

Configuration

The following variables are in use by this extension.

$wgWikiSeoDefaultImage

Set a default image to use if no image is set on the site. If this variable is not set the sites logo will be used.

Usage: $wgWikiSeoDefaultImage= 'Localfile.jpg';.

$wgGoogleSiteVerificationKey

Setting this variable will add a <meta name="google-site-verification" content="CODE"> tag to every page.

Usage: $wgGoogleSiteVerificationKey = 'CODE';. See for more information.

$wgBingSiteVerificationKey

Setting this variable will add a <meta name="msvalidate.01" content="CODE"> tag to every page.

Usage: $wgBingSiteVerificationKey= 'CODE';. See for more information.

$wgFacebookAppID

Setting this variable will add a <meta property="fb:app_id" content="ID"> tag to every page.

Usage: $wgFacebookAppID= 'App_ID';.

$wgYandexSiteVerificationKey

Setting this variable will add a <meta name="yandex-verification" content="CODE"> tag to every page.

Usage: $wgYandexSiteVerificationKey= 'CODE';. See for more information.

$wgAlexaSiteVerificationKey

Setting this variable will add a <meta name="alexaVerifyID" content="CODE"> tag to every page.

Usage: $wgAlexaSiteVerificationKey= 'CODE';. See for more information.

$wgPinterestSiteVerificationKey

Setting this variable will add a <meta name="p:domain_verify" content="CODE"> tag to every page.

Usage: $wgPinterestSiteVerificationKey= 'CODE';. See for more information.

$wgNortonSiteVerificationKey

Setting this variable will add a <meta name="norton-safeweb-site-verification" content="CODE"> tag to every page.

Usage: $wgNortonSiteVerificationKey= 'CODE';. See for more information.

$wgTwitterSiteHandle

Only used when Twitter generator is loaded.

Setting this variable will add a <meta property="twitter:site" content="@SITE_HANDLE"> tag to every page.

Usage: $wgTwitterSiteHandle = '@SITE_HANDLE';.

$wgMetadataGenerators

Array containing the metadata generator names to load.

Default: ["OpenGraph", "Twitter", "SchemaOrg"].

If you only want to change the page title and add 'description', 'keywords', 'robots' tags set $wgMetadataGenerators = [];

$wgWikiSeoDefaultImage

Default image. Local image, if not set $wgLogo will be used.

$wgTwitterCardType

Defaults to `summary_large_image` for the twitter card type.

Usage: $wgTwitterCardType = 'summary';

$wgWikiSeoDefaultLanguage

A default language code with area to generate a `<link rel="alternate" href="current Url" hreflang="xx-xx">` for.

Usage: $wgWikiSeoDefaultLanguage = 'de-de';

Usage

The extension can be used via the {{#seo}} parser function. It accepts the following named parameters in any order.

• title

The title you want to appear in the html title tag

• title_mode

Set to append, prepend, or replace (default) to define how the title will be amended.

• title_separator

The separator in case titlemode was set to append or prepend; " - " (default)

• keywords

A comma separated list of keywords for the meta keywords tag

• description

A text description for the meta description tag

• robots

Controls the behavior of search engine crawling and indexing

• googlebot

Controls the behavior of the google crawler

• hreflang_xx-xx

Adds <link rel="alternate" href="url" hreflang="xx-xx"> elements

tags related to the Open Graph protocol

• type

The type of your object, e.g., "video.movie". Depending on the type you specify, other properties may also be required.

• image

An image URL which should represent your object within the graph.
The extension will automatically add the right image url, width and height if an image name is set as the parameter. Example image = Local_file_to_use.png.
Alternatively a full url to an image can be used, image_width and image_height will then have to be set manually.
If no parameter is set, the extension will use $wgLogo as a fallback or the local file set through $wgWikiSeoDefaultImage.

• image_width

The image width in px. (Automatically set if an image name is set in image)

• image_height

The image height in px. (Automatically set if an image name is set in image)

• image_alt

Alternative description for the image.

• locale

The locale these tags are marked up in. Of the format language_TERRITORY.

• site_name

If your object is part of a larger web site, the name which should be displayed for the overall site. e.g., "IMDb".

tags related to Open Graph type "article"

• author

Writers of the article.

• keywords

Translates into article:tag

• section

A high-level section name. E.g. Technology

• published_time

When the article was first published. ISO 8601 Format.

tags related to Twitter Cards (see OpenGraph Tags)

• twitter_site

If you did not set a global site name through $wgTwitterSiteHandle, you can set a site handle per page. If a global site handle is set this key will be ignored.

Examples

Adding static values

{{#seo:
|title=Your page title
|title_mode=append
|keywords=these,are,your,keywords
|description=Your meta description
|image=Uploaded_file.png
|image_alt=Wiki Logo
}}

Adding dynamic values

If you need to include variables or templates you should use the parser function to ensure they are properly parsed. This allows you to use Cargo or Semantic MediaWiki, with Page Forms, for data entry, or for programmatic creation of a page title from existing variables or content...

{{#seo:
 |title={{#if: {{{page_title|}}} | {{{page_title}}} | Welcome to WikiSEO}}
 |title_mode={{{title_mode|}}}
 |keywords={{{keywords|}}}
 |description={{{description|}}}
 |published_time={{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}}
}}

Hreflang Attributes

{{#seo:
 |hreflang_de-de=https://example.de/page
 |hreflang_nl-nl=https://example.nl/page-nl
 |hreflang_en-us=https://website.com/
}}

Will generate the following `<link>` elements:

<link rel="alternate" href="https://example.de/page" hreflang="de-de">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://example.nl/page-nl" hreflang="nl-nl">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://website.com/" hreflang="en-us">

Migrating to v2

Removed tags

• DC.date.created
• DC.date.issued
• google
• name
• og:title (automatically set)
• og:url (automatically set)
• twitter:card (automatically set)
• twitter:creator
• twitter:domain
• article:modified_time / og:updated_time (automatically set)

Removed configuration settings

• $wgFacebookAdminIds (use $wgFacebookAppId instead)

Removed aliases

• metakeywords / metak

use keywords instead

• metadescription / metad

use description instead

• titlemode / title mode

use title_mode instead

Changed tags

• article:author -> author
• article:section -> section
• article:tag -> keywords
• article:published_time -> published_time
• og:image / twitter:image:src -> image
• og:image:width -> image_width
• og:image:height -> image_height
• og:locale -> locale
• og:site_name -> site_name
• og:title -> title
• og:type -> type
• twitter:description -> description

Known Issues

Extension:PageImages will add an og:image tag if an image is found on the page. This overwrites any og:image tag set using this extension.

There is currently no way to disable PageImages setting the meta tag.

Notes

This extension is not a drop-in replacement for the previous version of this extension from tinymighty/wiki-seo.

• If you only want to override the display title on pages (not append words to it), you might also look at the DISPLAYTITLE tag in combination with the Manual:$wgAllowDisplayTitle and Manual:$wgRestrictDisplayTitle settings.

schema.org

The SchemaOrg generator will set a SearchAction property based on Special:Search.

The properties publisher and author will be set to Organization with the name set to the content of $wgSitename.

dateModified will be automatically set by fetching the latest revision timestamp. If no published_time is set, datePublished will be set to the latest revision timestamp.

OpenGraph

article:modified_time will be automatically set by fetching the latest revision timestamp. If no published_time is set, article:published_time will be set to the latest revision timestamp.