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Association of custom fields, meta title, and meta description

PREREQUISITES: To use meta title and meta description in MVC widgets, you must first turn the functionality on.

The following is the correlation between the custom fields that you create in a static or dynamic content module and the meta title and meta description that are added to the <head> tag of the page:

MetaTitle

  • If you do not create a field named MetaTitle, Sitefinity CMS adds a <title> tag and takes its value from the Title field of a static module or from the identifier field of the dynamic content type.
  • If you create a custom field MetaTitle, but do not fill it out when you create the content item, Sitefinity CMS adds a <title> tag and takes its value from the Title field of a static module or from the identifier field of the dynamic content type.
  • If you create a custom field MetaTitle and fill it out when you create the content item, Sitefinity CMS adds a <title> tag and takes its value from what you have entered in MetaTitle field.

MetaDescription

  • If you do not create a custom field named MetaDescription, or you create one, but do not fill it out, Sitefinity CMS checks whether the static or dynamic content type has a custom field named Description.
    • If the content type has a custom field named Description, but it is empty, Sitefinity CMS does not add a meta description.
    • If the content type has a custom field named Description and it is filled out, Sitefinity CMS adds meta name description and takes its value from what you have entered in Description field.
  • If you create a custom property MetaDescription and fill it out when you create the content item, Sitefinity CMS adds meta name description and takes its value from what you have entered in MetaDescription field.

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