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#1 2013-06-20 20:10:46

skewray

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Get excerpt of sticky article

I am trying to a little SEO and set the meta description to the excerpts of articles. This works great for almost all of my web pages except for sections with sticky articles. I think I need a plugin for this. Does anyone know of a plugin that will get the excerpt of the sticky article outside of the article context, or one similar enough that I can hack? Right now the source looks something like:

<txp:else /><txp:if_search>
    <meta name="description" content="search results">
<txp:else /><txp:if_category>
    <meta name="description" content="listing of articles in category <txp:category title="1" />">
<txp:else /><txp:if_author>
    <meta name="description" content="listing of articles by <txp:author />">
<txp:else /><txp:if_individual_article>
    <meta name="description" content="<txp:excerpt />">
<txp:else /><txp:if_article_list>
    <meta name="description" content="listing of articles in section <txp:section title="1" />">
<txp:else />
    <meta name="description" content="oops...should never get here">
</txp:if_article_list>
</txp:if_individual_article>
</txp:if_author>
</txp:if_category>
</txp:if_search>

Sections with sticky articles end up using the if_article_list branch.

#2 2013-06-20 20:17:31

Gocom

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Re: Get excerpt of sticky article

You can get any article using the article_custom tag. For instance getting a sticky article from the current section is as simple as:

<txp:article_custom section='<txp:section />' status="sticky" limit="1">
    <txp:excerpt />
</txp:article_custom>

Last edited by Gocom (2013-06-20 20:18:45)

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#3 2013-06-20 20:44:47

skewray

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Re: Get excerpt of sticky article

Sweet. Thanks, Jukka. Is there a way to see if there is a sticky article at all? That way I can use the list description if there isn’t a sticky article.

Last edited by skewray (2013-06-20 20:50:17)

#4 2013-06-20 20:57:54

uli

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Re: Get excerpt of sticky article

Yes, like this:

<txp:variable name="stickytester"><txp:article_custom section='<txp:section />' status="sticky" limit="1"><txp:excerpt /></txp:article_custom>
</txp:variable>
<txp:if_variable name="stickytester" value="">
  <!-- Code for "false" results  -->
<txp:else />
  <txp:variable name="stickytester" />
</txp:if_variable>

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#5 2013-06-20 23:47:49

skewray

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From: Sunny Southern California

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Re: Get excerpt of sticky article

Thanks, Uli. That works. Sadly I have the sticky article for the landing page in the ‘articles’ section, so now ‘articles’ has the excerpt for the default section while the default section has none. I am getting closer, though.

Last edited by skewray (2013-06-21 01:56:22)

#6 2013-06-23 01:25:50

skewray

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From: Sunny Southern California

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Posts: 225

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Re: Get excerpt of sticky article

Just in case anyone else wants to try this, here is what I got to work:

<txp:if_search>
    <meta name="description" content="result of searching the <txp:site_name /> website for '<txp:search_term />'" >
<txp:else />
<txp:if_category>
    <meta name="description" content="listing of articles at the <txp:site_name /> website in category <txp:category title="1" />" >
<txp:else />
<txp:if_author>
    <meta name="description" content="listing of articles at the <txp:site_name /> website by <txp:author />">
<txp:else />
<txp:if_individual_article>
    <meta name="description" content="<txp:excerpt />">
<txp:else />
<txp:if_section name="">
    <txp:variable name="meta_excerpt"><txp:article_custom section="articles" status="sticky" limit="1"><txp:excerpt /></txp:article_custom></txp:variable>
    <meta name="description" content='<txp:variable name="meta_excerpt" />' >
<txp:else />
<txp:if_section name="articles">
    <meta name="description" content="listing of articles at the <txp:site_name /> website in section <txp:section title="1" />">
<txp:else />
    <txp:variable name="meta_excerpt"><txp:article_custom section='<txp:section />' status="sticky" limit="1"><txp:excerpt /></txp:article_custom></txp:variable>
    <txp:if_variable name="meta_excerpt" value="">
        <meta name="description" content="listing of articles at the <txp:site_name /> website in section <txp:section title="1" />">
    <txp:else />
        <meta name="description" content='<txp:variable name="meta_excerpt" />' >
    </txp:if_variable>
</txp:if_section>
</txp:if_section>
</txp:if_individual_article>
</txp:if_author>
</txp:if_category>
</txp:if_search>