doncabreraphone
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4 years ago Hello Garrison,
You are welcome, I hope you find it as useful as I'm finding it. Hugo really needed something like this. Your changes have been added and the code is now updated. About the <meta name="description">, I'm afraid you actually needed to have that one. Google is always saying things like "oh don't worry, our magical algorithm will read your content anyway", but the truth is Google is not the only search engine in town. We now have DuckDuckGo, Bing, Baidu, Yandex, and many more, and they do relay on meta description to run their businesses.
You can always relay on the meta tags to get your site in front of search engines.
Schema is more for meta data. Googleupcoming events and you will see what I mean. Using Schema just to display your post title and description is... kind of like using a Ferrari to go around the block. Yes, you can, and you will be doing it with style, but there is so much more you can do with a Ferrari besides taking selfies on the curb with strangers. Schema.org has a ton of information on how you can use and tweak Hugo's internal schema template. The more data you throw at Search Engines, the more they will crawl your site.
Victor Hugo focuses on the basis, on the meta tags, but I'm planning on updating it to include Schema (although the scope of Schema is so large it will take a while for me to go through all the specs). As it is, Victor Hugo makes for a pretty good replacement for the Yoast plugin.
Thanks for stopping by!
Let me know if the fixes work for you and I will close this issue.
garrison
Hello. Well done! And thank you.
Here are a few issues that I noticed while getting this working:
deferattribute on the<script>tag that loads jQuery, which means jQuery is not loaded before inline Javascript, which meant initially that victorhugo was broken on my site. I fixed this by changing this line to instead saywindow.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){, which removes the dependency on jQuery until after it has loaded, even if it is markeddefer.<meta name="description">tag is missing entirely. In my case, I had included the partial{{ template "_internal/schema.html" . -}}, which hasitempropas its attribute instead ofname. Not sure what the difference is, but ideally this wouldn't cause the code to fail entirely.Once I resolved these two issues, victorhugo is very informative.