Middleman MetaTags

SEO gem for your Middleman apps.

Based on meta-tags Rails gem.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'middleman-meta-tags'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install middleman-meta-tags

Usage

Configuration

Edit config.rb and add:

activate :meta_tags

Title

set_meta_tags title: 'Relevant title'
title 'Relevant title'

Description

set_meta_tags description: 'Powerful website full of best practices and keywords'
description 'Powerful website full of best practices and keywords'

Keywords

set_meta_tags keywords: %w(some seo keywords).join(', ')
keywords %w(some seo keywords).join(', ')

Meta-Refresh

To set the HTTP Meta-Refresh property of a page, use the refresh key:

set_meta_tags refresh: "0;url=http://example.com/"

Display meta tags

Into your <head></head> tag:

display_meta_tags site: 'My Awesome Website'

By default, there is a | as separator between title and website name.

You can modify it by adding: separator: '»'

Autotagging

If you want to enable auto meta tagging, put this in you <head></head> tag:

auto_display_meta_tags

This will look inside of data/site.yml file to find any site wide defaults. Then it looks the page meta data to attempt to display the following keys:

MM site => META title
MM title => META title
MM description => META description
MM keywords => META keywords
MM twitter_card (defaults to summary_large_image) => META twitter:card
MM twitter_author => META twitter:creator
MM description => META twitter:description
MM thumbnail => META twitter:image:src
MM publisher_twitter => META twitter:site
MM title => META twitter:title
MM description => META og:description
MM thumbnail => META og:image
MM site => META og:site_name
MM title => META og:title
MM host => optional attribute for composing thumbnail src with asset helper

In addition, if you want to customize meta tags by each page's frontmatter, you can add customize_by_frontmatter: true in data/site.yml. The priority would be set_meta_tags > frontmatter > site wide defaults.

Manually adding addition tags

Create a helper method inside of your config.rb, like so

helper do
  def my_tags
    set_meta_tags key => value
  end
end

And add it to the layouts and views that you need.

Pull images

For the thumbnail to render for twitter metatags, a full url must be used:

thumbnail: 'http://example.com/path/to/image.jpg'

If pointing to an image in your Middleman source, you can instead specify the relative image path as you would with an asset helper provided you have also configured the host in your site.yml. If your Middleman build activates extensions like :asset_hash, the full, hashed URL will be generated in your metatags.

# site.yml
host: http://example.com

# your article
thumbnail 'page/to/image/jpg'

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request

Publishing

Update ./lib/middleman-meta-tags/version.rb and CHANGELOG.md
gem build middleman-meta-tags.gemspec
bundle exec rake release

tiste / middleman-meta-tags