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I have created a Metadata HACK for VM (tested 1.1.4 w/ J1.5). If you want better seo value, and/or have lots of products, you will NEED THIS for automatic and unique metadata / metatag generation of meta title, meta description, meta keywords, and starting from v1.7, supports most all other metatags including CANONICAL![/b]
1. This hack will auto-generate a better Title, Meta Description, Meta Keywords set, Meta Abstract, and Meta Subject, UNIQUE to each product and category. Likewise, you can now add the Meta Canonical Tag, unique to each product and category. Also supports adding tags like:
* Overwrite Joomla Meta Generator Tag
* Meta Classification
* Meta Author
* Meta Organization
* Meta Copyright
* Meta Country
* Meta Content-Language
* Meta Language
* Meta Designer
* Meta Comments
* Meta No-Email-Collection
2. You can let it automatically run it's course and generate this info dynamically, or you can use the dynamic output to build a base then edit the output for each product and/or category.
3. Instructions are included on the VM admin add/edit product page (first tab), or the add/edit category page (first tab).
4. This is a hack, so you will need to modify or replace 6 files:
administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/product.product_category_form.php
administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/product.product_form.php
administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/shop.browse.php
administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/shop.product_details.php
administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/ps_product.php
administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/ps_product_category.php
5. You will need to run the metadata_hack.sql included as well. This:
Adds five new columns (fields) to jos_vm_product
Adds five new columns (fields) to jos_vm_category
Adds new table jos_vm_product_metakeys
Adds new table jos_vm_category_metakeys
Note: If you did not use the "jos" naming convention on your database, please update this before running the script.
6.Comes with an sql to uninstall hack database changes. Comes with files to overwrite hack files should you want to remove.