LG Better Meta v1.8.0 not working on EE 1.6.7
Development and Programming
Hi all, I’ve installed LG Better Meta v1.8.0 by Leevi Graham on my EE1.6.7. The extension installation goes fine, but when I go into the extension Settings everything is screwed up.
The installation process (http://leevigraham.com/cms-customisation/expressionengine/lg-better-meta/#toc-user_guide:installation) says (at point 9):
Copy the contents of /themes/site_themes/cp_global_images/ to /themes/site_themes/cp_global_images directory
Fact is: there is no cp_global_images folder inside the zip. Don’t know if this is the problem.
Have you experienced the same problem?
Carlo
I’m having the same problem. When I click on Settings, I get: Fatal error: Undefined class name ‘self’ in /nfs/home/l/site.com/public_html/system/extensions/ext.lg_better_meta.php on line 149
Installed v.1.7.1 and it worked for me…
I think I’m going to have to revert to 1.7.1 as well. I was hoping to upgrade it for my client, but I’ll just wait until it’s fixed.
Installed Better Meta 1.8.0 fresh on a fresh 1.6.7 install and had this same problem.
Hey guys,
To fix the issues you have described please update your PHP install to version 5 and enable PHP short tags. I’m currently working on fixes in the extension and they should be available next week,
Leevi, I purchased and downloaded the extension this morning and installed everything until the last line, when I noticed the file was missing. I don’t know how to enable php short tags (another thing I need to learn!) and perhaps should wait for a fix. Will I just copy new version files over the ones I’ve currently installed? Thanks, I’ve heard really great things about this extension and look forward to using it.
You might be able to enable short tags in your .htaccess file by adding the following:
php_flag short_open_tag onFYI I’ll be removing all the short tags in the next update.
Thanks Leevi, I’ll give that a try. Is it a problem that there is no cp_global_images folder inside the zip file? I checked several times. The last line of installation instructions said to “Copy the contents of /themes/site_themes/cp_global_images/ to /themes/site_themes/cp_global_images directory”.
You can ignore that step. I need to remove it from the docs.
Leevi, it seems to be enabled correctly now but, I can’t seem to get it working on specific entries – just the default. I am using the following code between the head tag.
{exp:lg_better_meta_pl:template entry_id="{segment_1}"}Here’s an example url structure:
http://www.mysitename.com/index.php/about-us/To make sure I wasn’t making a mistake with the URL structure I changed segement_1 to segment_2, etc. Regardless of what I do, it shows the default meta information on the settings page and nothing weblog specific. The meta information is enabled on settings, and I’ve entered unique content there so I could test.
Any help would be appreciated.
Jerry
Leevi, it seems to be enabled correctly now but, I can’t seem to get it working on specific entries – just the default. I am using the following code between the head tag.Here’s an example url structure:{exp:lg_better_meta_pl:template entry_id="{segment_1}"}To make sure I wasn’t making a mistake with the URL structure I changed segement_1 to segment_2, etc. Regardless of what I do, it shows the default meta information on the settings page and nothing weblog specific. The meta information is enabled on settings, and I’ve entered unique content there so I could test. Any help would be appreciated. Jerryhttp://www.mysitename.com/index.php/about-us/
Looks like you are using the url title not the entry id.
You’ll want to try:
{exp:lg_better_meta_pl:template url_title="{segment_1}"}Leevi, still no luck. I’ve attached relevant screen shots to show you the various pages. I’m only displaying a few meta items on the publish page for testing purposes right now. Note that the default meta information is the only thing showing on my final source code. And it lists all meta information, even though I’ve only specified that I want to include title, description, and keywords.
Also, here’s an excerpt from my head template:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html >
<head>
{exp:lg_better_meta_pl:template url_title="{segment_1}"}
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='screen' href='{stylesheet=stylesheets/reset}' />
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='screen' href='{stylesheet=stylesheets/text}' />
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='screen' href='{stylesheet=stylesheets/960}' />
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='screen' href='{stylesheet=stylesheets/layout}' />
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='screen' href='{stylesheet=stylesheets/dropmenu}' />
<title>{embed:title}</title>Any ideas on the post above? If this helps, here’s the code I’m using in an about_us template. Note that it is embedding the head template that I included a pic of in my previous post.
{embed="includes/head"}
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper" class="container_12">
{embed="includes/header"}
{embed="includes/navigation" loc="about"}
<div class="grid_8">
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="about" disable="trackbacks|member_data|pagination"}
<div class="entry">
<h3 class="green">{title}</h3>
{simplecontent}
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
{embed="includes/contact_form"}
</div>
<div class="grid_4">
{embed="includes/sidebar"}
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
{embed="includes/footer"}
</div> <!--close id=wrapper -->
{embed="includes/analytics"}
</body>
</html>Any help would be appreciated.
Jerry
Hey Jerry,
It might help if we start with something a bit simpler. Can you create a template which just has the following in it:
{exp:lg_better_meta_pl:template entry_id="_an_entry_id_"}and replace “an_entry_id” with the actual entry id of the about page?