Meta Tag Problem

[alexandermorris]

All of my meta tag descriptions and keywords have the following

<meta name="description" content="META_TAG_DESCRIPTION" />
<meta name="keywords" content="META_TAG_KEYWORDS" />

I thought oscmax 2.0 was supposed to fill this in automatically. I've looked at the meta_tags.php file and have been replacing some of the META_TAG_DESCRIPTION areas with my text but nothing makes a change on any of the pages. I go back and correct any of my changes when I see that nothing has worked. Can anyone provide some assistance on this? I've tried to find it in the guide but it's not there or I don't know where to look. Randomly changing things and hoping I hit upon the answer is not working for me. Please tell me what to do. I would prefer the meta tags be different for each page, but something would be better than nothing at this point.

Thanks!

Cherie

[met00]

whenever you see "META_TAG_DESCRIPTION" something in all caps it means that the define statement is NOT being run since those things are all defined in DEFINE statements. So, you need to look where META_TAG_DESCRIPTION is defined and see why that file is not being run. [I would start looking in /includes/meta_tags.php for the answer]

Now, the next question is, just how important are meta tags to a page today? That is most likely a discussion for a thread in a completely different area.

[alexandermorris]

I installed a fresh copy of the meta_tags.php file and nothing changed. I have determined that I can go to the main_page.tpl.php and add my text where it says META_TAG_DESCRIPTION and it will actually show up. But I am assuming that this would defeat the dynamic meta tag functions and the meta decriptions and keywords would be the same for every page if I did this.

Any suggestions?

<meta name="description" content="<?php echo META_TAG_DESCRIPTION; ?>" />
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo META_TAG_KEYWORDS; ?>" />

[alexandermorris]

Can anybody offer assistance? Please.

[alexandermorris]

Solved the problem! The folowing
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'meta_tags.php'); ?>
was moved to after
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo META_TAG_DESCRIPTION; ?>" />
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo META_TAG_KEYWORDS; ?>" />

resulting in no dynamic tags.

I moved it back before all the meta statements and everything seems to work.

I also found the info on how to edit the dynamic meta tags. I kept overlooking it because of how it was titled. It is under "how_to_remove_the_model_number_and_price_from_the _page_title.txt".

Cherie