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

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.