Always display global meta tags (useful for Views pages, etc)

What are you using to display meta tags with your Views?

@aidanlis: Do you mean that you're expecting the global meta tags to display on Views pages? Are they custom Views pages or are they entity pages being displayed using Views, e.g. taxonomy term pages?

They are custom views pages, and yes it'd be great if the defaults carried through.

That was my expectation too — I expected the global defaults to work on all pages unless a more specific metatag configuration existed (eg. for node pages, user pages, etc.).

Are there any foreseeable issues with switching to this behaviour?

This is one possible method to ensure all pages have, at a minimum, the global metatags set:

diff --git a/sites/all/modules/metatag/metatag.module b/sites/all/modules/metatag/metatag.module
index eca7434..0d07d75 100644
--- a/sites/all/modules/metatag/metatag.module
+++ b/sites/all/modules/metatag/metatag.module
@@ -900,6 +900,18 @@ function metatag_page_build(&$page) {
     $page['content']['metatags'] = array();
   }
 
+  // Always add global metatags. These will be ignored if a more specific
+  // override is provided.
+  $cid = "output:global:" . hash('sha256', $GLOBALS['base_url'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
+  if ($cache = cache_get($cid, 'cache_metatag')) {
+    $metatags = $cache->data;
+  }
+  else {
+    $metatags = metatag_metatags_view('global', array());
+    cache_set($cid, $metatags, 'cache_metatag');
+  }
+  $page['content']['metatags']['global'] = $metatags;
+
   // The front page has special consideration.
   if (drupal_is_front_page()) {
     $instance = 'global:frontpage';

Edit: Fixed the patch snippet

This version is a little cleaner - it only loads the meta tags if nothing was found already. I've tested it with metatag_context and the context-provided tags still load correctly, so I think it'll be fine.

Great, I've patched our version of Metatags with the patch in comment 7, and all works as expected for us.

Updating the title to better describe the change being made.

Because this is potentially a performance drain on pages that may not need it, I've added a variable to control it and documented the new variable in the Fine Tuning section of the README.txt file.

ARGH. I didn't output the results of "git diff", I output the results of "git status", and I've since reverted the changes.

Re-recreated the functionality and update to the README.txt file. Also, argh.

Committed.

Now that Metatag v7.x-1.0-beta5 is out am closing this to keep the issue queue clean.