My client has requested the ability to maintain two sets of data for page previews, one for internal links and one for external. This is because they have content cards on their site for internal links, that behave much like facebook/twitter link cards (Title, Image, Description) — but they want the ability to get more “sales pitchy” in their external-facing descriptions.
Ideally, I could set this up so the internal set of data is required, and SEO override fields are optional. So there’d be four fields on the model:
- Title*
- Description*
- Image*
- SEO (title, description, image)
Then, if the SEO field is left empty, both internal links and external SEO meta tags are based on the first three required ones.
This currently almost works! Except for description. I’ve noticed that _seoMetaTags will pick up local title and image data if the SEO field is left empty — but it always falls back to the global SEO description.
Am I just not setting up my local description field correctly? I’ve tried both single-line and simple text area inputs.
Or, is this just how things are currently wired? Based on @mat_jack1 's comment here: SEO field vs SEO in Settings it sounds like only title and image are considered for fallbacks.
If it IS how things are currently wired, my feature request is to add a locally derived fallback for description, as well.
