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AdvancedMeta Release status: unmaintainedCategory:Unmaintained extensions
Implementation	Page action Category:Page action extensions, Database Category:Database extensions
Description	Allows per page editing of various meta tags for SEO reasons
Author(s)	Bart van Heukelom Zayoo (Talk) Litso Swidmann (Talk) Patric Wirth
Maintainer(s)	Hallo Welt! GmbH
Latest version	3.0.0 (2018-05-17)
Compatibility policy	Master maintains backward compatibility.Category:Extensions with master compatibility policy
MediaWiki	1.27+Category:Extensions with manual MediaWiki version
PHP	5.5+
Database changes	Yes
Tables	ext_meta
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Browse repository (GitHub) Gerrit code review Git commit log Download source tarball Category:Extensions in Wikimedia version control
Parameters $wgGlobalKeywordsMsgKey $wgNoIndexOnOldVersions
Added rights advancedmeta-edit
Hooks used BeforePageDisplay Category:BeforePageDisplay extensions LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates Category:LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates extensions SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal Category:SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal extensions
Quarterly downloads	15 (Ranked 100th)
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Issues	Open tasks · Report a bug

The AdvancedMeta extension allows setting the robots, keywords and description meta tags for MediaWiki, for SEO purposes. Meta settings can be edited for individual pages, or entire namespaces can be denied from indexing by robots.

Usage

• Open the AdvancedMeta dialog via the "More" menu: "Search engine optimization".
• Enter the required information:
  • Title Alias: Shorten the URL to the most important search terms (e.g. advancedmeta-seo-extension)
  • Index: Allow robots to index the page
  • Follow: Allow robots to follow the links in the wiki
  • Description: Give the page a meaningful short description
  • Keywords: Assign meaningful keywords

Screenshots

• 
  Open via the more menu
• 
  Set meta information via the dialog box
• 
  Changes in the meta description

Installation

• Download and move the extracted AdvancedMeta folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/AdvancedMeta
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'AdvancedMeta' );
  

• Run the update script which will automatically create the necessary database tables that this extension needs.
• Configure as required.
• Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

Compatibility

It is expected that this extension does not play with extensions that also work with keywords and descriptions. It is moreover incompatible with maintenance script "ImportImages.php".

See also

• Extension:Description2
• Extension:MetaMaster
• Extension:WikiSEO
• Extension:Semantic Meta Tags
• Extension:PageProperties