Meta Knight – SEO for Kirby

Meta Knight is a SEO and Social Media Sharing Plugin for Kirby. Meta Knight makes it easier to work with meta information in Kirby's panel.

Meta Knight provides blueprints, snippets and custom preview sections. At the moment the plugin covers:

• Basic Meta Information (Title, Description, Keywords, Canonical URL, etc.) + Google Search Preview
• Open Graph + Facebook Sharing Preview
• Twitter Cards + Twitter Cards Preview
• Robots Settings

All of the above is neatly organized in a pre-composed SEO tab that can easily be added to any blueprint.

This plugin was originally developed at diesdas.digital by Jonathan Muth, Lorenz Seeger and Leslie Büttel. Meta Knight exists because we wanted to standardize the way we handle meta information across all our projects.

We'd also like to thank @distantnative for his help along the way! Without him this plugin wouldn't be what it is today.

Config options

Site title

Order

By default the Page Title will be rendered before the Site Title. Resulting in a title tag that looks like this: <title>Page Title – Site Title</title>. If you want the Site Title to come first, simply add the following lines to your Kirby config.php file:

'diesdasdigital.meta-knight' => [
    'siteTitleAfterPageTitle' => false,
],

You'll then get a title tag that looks like this: <title>Site Title – Page Title</title>.

Customize home page title

By default the title tag of the home page will include both the page title and the site title and look like this: <title>Page Title – Site Title</title>. If you want to only display the site title on the homepage, simply add the following lines to your Kirby config.php file:

'diesdasdigital.meta-knight' => [
    'siteTitleAsHomePageTitle' => true,
],

The title tage of your home page will then look like this: <title>Site Title</title>

The same can be done with the page title on the homepage

'diesdasdigital.meta-knight' => [
    'pageTitleAsHomePageTitle' => true,
],

will result in <title>Page Title</title>

Keep in mind: Both options cannot be enabled at the same time.

Customizeable page title | site title separator

The separator between page title and site title can be customized like this:

'diesdasdigital.meta-knight' => [
    'separator' => ' \o/ ',
],

The default value is |.

Canonical URLs

Meta Knight gives you control over how the auto-generated canonical URLs for your pages are rendered. By default canonical URLs do not include the www. subdomain. If you wish the canonical URLs to include www. please set the following option in config.php:

'diesdasdigital.meta-knight' => [
    'canonicalURLIncludesWWW' => true,
],

Please note:

• Auto-generated canonical URLs will always be the https:// version of any given page.
• Do not enable canonicalURLIncludesWWW if your Kirby site is running on another subdomain.
• A canonical URL that was manually entered in the SEO Tab will always override the auto-generated canonical URL of any given page.

Installation

Download

Download and copy this repository to /site/plugins/kirby-meta-knight.

Git submodule

git submodule add https://github.com/diesdasdigital/kirby-meta-knight.git site/plugins/kirby-meta-knight

Composer

composer require diesdasdigital/kirby-meta-knight

Setup

How to add Meta Knight to Kirby:

1. Add this tab to your site's blueprint (site.yml): seotab: seo (Meta Knight uses the site's meta information as a fall back when no meta information is provided for a page)

2. Add this tab to all your page blueprints: seotab: seo

3. Add these two snippets to your head: <?php snippet('meta_information'); ?> + <?php snippet('robots'); ?>

Example:

title: Site

tabs:
  content:
    icon: text
    label: Content
    sections:
      drafts:
        headline: Drafts
        type: pages
        status: draft
        templates:
          - default
          - masthead
        image:
          query: false
      unlisted:
        headline: Unlisted
        type: pages
        status: unlisted
        image:
          query: false
      listed:
        headline: Listed
        type: pages
        status: listed
        image:
          query: false

  seotab: seo

Options

Currently the plugin isn't configurable via the config.php file. This is something we are thinking about adding in a future release.

Development

Development

You can start the dev process with …

yarn dev

This will automatically update the index.js and index.css of Meta Knight as soon as you make changes. It will also enable hot module reloading in the panel. Reload the panel once and afterwards you should see changes immediately without further reloading.

Production

As soon as you are happy with the changed you've made to Meta Knight, you should build the final version with

yarn build

This will automatically create a minified and optimized version of your index.js and index.css that will improve load time in production environments.

License

MIT – See LICENSE.md for more info.

Credits

• diesdas ⚡️ digital