SOLVED: Metadata editing confusion.

[acuitas]

I absolutely love this CMS. Excellent work! I have built several sites with it already. I am a fan. On the site in question, I'm running CMS Made Simple 1.5.2. I'm using PHP 5, and MySQL 5.0.51a-community. Apache 1.3.41 (Unix). Here is what happens.

I put metadata in the Page Defaults. Then built the site. Now I want to change the metadata for all pages. So, I put new metadata in the Global Settings Metadata field. That resulted in 2 sets of metadata on the page source. Next, I removed the metadata from the Page Defaults, and turned off Cachable, and Active. Both metadata still appear in the source. Please tell me what I am missing about the admin interface that will make this work right?

Thank you kindly.

[cyberman]

Have you tried to delete cache manually (Site admin > Global settings)?

[acuitas]

I believe I have, but on your que, I tried it again. I made sure the metadata in the Page Default was empty first. And after I emptied the cache, I clicked Submit to be sure the Global matadata was saved. Then with a clean browser cache, checked the home page source and there are still 2 version of metadata.

Thanks for trying. New thought?

[cyberman]

Please try to delete both metadata entries - normally now there should be nothing ... does this work?

[acuitas]

Hello again. I did what you suggested. I also hit the Clear Cache button, and Submit with nothing in the matadata field. The Page Default metadata field is also still empty. Now, both are empty. The old Page Default metadata is still appearing on every page source. The Global metadata has stopped appearing. New thought?

I am also curious why this line appears in duplicate under all conditions:



But I will ask about that later. Maybe it is a clue for you, so I mention it now.

If you want to view my source code, the website is at http://acuitas.com

[Nullig]

I don't see any duplicate entries. This is what I get:

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<meta name="Keyphrases" content="Acuitas Website Design in Maine | Bangor | Portland">
<meta name="Description" content="Acuitas Website Design in Maine | Bangor | Portland" />
<meta name="Keywords" content="Acuitas Website Design in Maine | Bangor | Portland" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="Distribution" content="Global" />
<meta name="Author" content="PencilJazz" />
<meta name="Robots" content="index,follow" />

<meta name="revisit-after" content="10 days">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://acuitas.com/stylesheet.php?cssid=42&mediatype=screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://acuitas.com/stylesheet.php?cssid=43&mediatype=screen" />

It looks OK to me, other than the keywords meta tag not being properly formatted.

Nullig

[cyberman]

The old Page Default metadata is still appearing on every page source. The Global metadata has stopped appearing. New thought?

Is this an updated CMSms 1.5.2 install or a fresh install?

[calguy1000]

Values from 'page defaults' are copied into each page when you add a new page.
Changing the values in 'page defaults'  only effects new pages.

You'll have to go through each page, and take out the duplicate metadata stuff from there.

[acuitas]

Thank you Calguy1000. I get it.

It was a forehead slapper. Wish I had thought of it.
I'm just new to the interface. It didn't occur to me.

Thank you Cyberman too, for caring.