HOWTO: Stop robots indexing printer-friendly versions of pages
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:10 pm
In case you missed it, there's a cool CMSMS tag called {printer} that makes a link to a printer-friendly version of your web page. I use the following in my Template's Content area, a few blank lines after the content of the page:
Now, you don't want Google & co indexing the printer-friendly version of each page. We can stop this by adding a meta tag to the of such pages:
We can do this automatically with a one-line patch to content.functions.php
Hope this is useful.
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<small>Printer-friendly version: {print showbutton="true"}</small>Code: Select all
<meta name="robots" content="noindex"></meta>Code: Select all
diff content.functions.php.ORIG content.functions.php
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< $tpl_source = '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">'."\n".'<__html><head><title>{title}</title>{stylesheet}{literal}<style type="text/css" media="print">#back {display: none;}</style>{/literal}</head></__body style="background-color: white; color: black; background-image: none;"><form action="index.php?page='.$tpl_name.'" method="post"><input type="submit" value="Go Back"></form>{content}<__body></__html>';
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> $tpl_source = '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">'."\n".'<__html><head><title>{title}</title><meta name="robots" content="noindex"></meta>{stylesheet}{literal}<style type="text/css" media="print">#back {display: none;}</style>{/literal}</head></__body style="background-color: white; color: black; background-image: none;"><form action="index.php?page='.$tpl_name.'" method="post"><input type="submit" value="Go Back"></form>{content}<__body></__html>';