Add meta tag "language"

Hello,

I need language meta tag for SEO in my website. How can i add Language meta tag?

Regards,

+1, even if i have the opinion that google ignores this and analyzes the text (text analyze shows it the language). other opinions?

Feature requests go into HEAD.

Any progress on this?

is this now in beta 5?

Any progress or solution on this?

From this issue I assume this is not being worked on. So as usual, patches are welcome.

Create a custom module (i called mine metatag_hacks) and add the following snippet in your module.module. It implements hook_metatag_info().

<?php
function metatag_hacks_metatag_info() {
    $info = array();
    
    $info['tags']['language'] = array(
        'label' => t('Language'),
        'description' => '',
        'class' => 'DrupalTextMetaTag',
        'group' => 'advanced',
    );
    
    return $info;
}

@lasac: Or you could make a patch..

Will do. Just saw that the snippet is not correct we need http-equiv='' and not name=''.

Here is the patch.

looks like the tabs are not converted to spaces. In drupal we use 2 or 4 spaces for a tab?

Indents should be fixed.

guess not

And now...

Last time.

as a sidenote i would advice the following patch for this as well:
https://drupal.org/node/975116

This gives you language tokens.

Thanks for putting the effort into this patch, I'll review it later today.

BTW when you upload a patch you need to change the status to "Needs review" as that both triggers the automated test system and informs others that it's ready to be manually tested & reviewed too.

Got it. Here is the final patch, others should be forgotton.

There's one small thing that needs to be fixed - you have some hard tabs at the closing line of the $element definition.

New patch.

I must say tough that my hands are itching when i see metatag.inc. We really should have the new objects just define a different template in stead of copy-pasting the whole getElement() method.

If i can find the time i would like to have a look at refactoring the code a bit if you like.

@Lasac: I'm always interested in seeing how others can help improve the module :)

Glad this hasn't been committed yet. After taking a better look at the code the following patch will do all we need without creating a whole new object.

Woops

example wasn't visible, so surrounded it by the code-tags.

FYI, missing meta language information is reported as a "Moderate" SEO compliance issue by Bing webmaster tools.

I tested it with #975116: Create a 'language' token type (D7) to get a token.
Seems OK.
I use [language:language-content] for content language in the Global section of Metatag.

This needs a description added to explain what the meta tag is for and what acceptable values are.

I went to add the description field for the "language-content" meta tag and, after reading the w3 documentation on the tag ( http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-http-and-lang ) learned that this tag is deprecated and should not be used. As an alternative, you should include the "lang" attribute in the tag, drupal 7 does this already on both translated and non translated sites. If you would like I can still make the fix to the description field on the patch.

Committed. Thanks everyone!

Excuse-me I have update with the RC2 version and I don't see the meta content language in my content pages.
Where should I set this ?

Hello after update to the 7x-1.5, the meta content language still doesn't display,

I've entered on the admin/config/search/metatags (Global) page the field
Content language= [metatag:content-language]

But on the source code, it doesn't appears.
What is the mistake ?

Best regards

Any time you use a "metatag" token in a metatag that means that you want it to use another meta tag value in place of the current one, e.g. using [metatag:description] in og:description. You should be using [node:language] to display a node's language, or apply the patch from #975116: Create a 'language' token type (D7) to add a new token to show the current page's language.

Also, the fact that you're using [metatag:content-language] in the "content language" tag means that you're created a circular reference; this would have crashed older versions but 1.5 is able to identify these (to a degree) and now blow up your site :)

DamienMcKenna, thanks for the reply. I did not understand it is a circular reference.
If I use [node:language] it well works for node.
What is the token to use for the homepage ([current-page:query:?], views or taxonomy ?

Thanks in advance

@selinav: You need to use the patch from #975116: Create a 'language' token type (D7), then you'll have a new token for the current language that could be used in the global settings.