@dendronhq/eleventy-plugin-seo
v0.6.0
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Eleventy plugin to generate meta tags for improved SEO.
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About Eleventy Plugin SEO
An Eleventy plugin to generate meta tags for improved SEO using the Liquid or Nujucks templating engines.
I wrote this plugin when moving from Jekyll to Eleventy to get the functionality I previously had with Jekyll SEO Tag.
Features
- Page title with styling options and pagination.
- Page description.
- Canonical URL.
- Robots meta directive for pagination.
- Author meta directive.
- Open Graph markup.
- Twitter Card markup.
- Supports Liquid and Nunjucks.
Installation
Available on npm:
npm install eleventy-plugin-seo --save
Add the plugin to .eleventy.js
:
const pluginSEO = require("eleventy-plugin-seo");
module.exports = function(eleventyConfig) {
eleventyConfig.addPlugin(pluginSEO, require("./src/_data/seo.json"));
};
Usage
Add the following right before </head>
in your site's template(s):
Liquid:
{% seo %}
Nunjucks:
{% seo "" %}
Done!
Front Matter
The plugin uses these front matters when available:
---
title: Some page title
excerpt: Some page excerpt
author: Jane Doe
image: foo.jpg
ogtype: website
---
ogtype
defaults to article
, set it to website
or something more appropriate via front matter where required.
Config
Pass in an object with config options to the plugin:
eleventyConfig.addPlugin(pluginSEO, {
title: "Foobar Site",
description: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.",
url: "https://foo.com",
author: "Jane Doe",
twitter: "username",
image: "foo.jpg"
});
Alternatively keep the options in an external file and require it:
eleventyConfig.addPlugin(pluginSEO, require("./src/_data/seo.json"));
title
Uses the title in front matter and by default the site title gets appended to the page title, page title - site title
. Page with page number gets appended to the page title when paginated.
See options for customization.
description
Uses front matter excerpt to generate the description. If no excerpt is set for a page it falls back on using the site description in the config.
url
Full URL to the site without trailing slash, https://foo.com
.
author
Full name of the site author, Jane Doe
. Can be overridden on a per page basis using author
in front matter.
Twitter username for the author of the site. Used when generating the markup for Twitter cards.
image
URL to default image to use if none is set in front matter when creating markup blocks for open graph and Twitter cards.
Options
The behavior of the output can be controlled via an options object that can be passed in with the config.
eleventyConfig.addPlugin(pluginSEO, {
title: "Foobar Site",
...
options: {
titleStyle: "minimalistic",
titleDivider: "|",
imageWithBaseUrl: true,
twitterCardType: "summary_large_image"
}
});
titleStyle
Setting the style to minimalistic
removes the appending of the site title to all title strings.
titleDivider
Changes the divider between elements in the title output from -
to any custom character or string.
imageWithBaseUrl
Prepends the config url
to the image
option.
twitterCardType
Card type for Twitter card. Default is summary
.
Additional Tags
While adding the seo
tag is all that is needed, the plugin defines more tags that it uses internally that can be convenient to use in other places.