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Hi John,
We are in the process of creating a Blog to act as our main school website. https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/gc/ndhs
Over the next few weeks I intend to add enough content to go live so to speak. The site is already public and we have another site that is currently live. My question is really related to how I can add meta data such as keywords and descriptions. Is it possible for me to access the HTML that lies behind the site as an Admin user?
Thanks in advance,
Joe Kane
Notre Dame High Glasgow
Hi Joe,
At the moment it is not possible to edit the meta data. If you use the Jetpack plugin and the social module you will get Open Graph tags added that will be used by Twitter and some other app. It may be that we can add this functionality to Glow Blogs at some point via a plugin if this would be useful. That will require finding a suitable one and testing it for functionality, performance & security so will not be quick.
Hi John,
Thanks, when I take a look at the source code for a site like Lourdes Secondary School in Glasgow there is meta data present. Is it possible that Glow Blogs will add this in the background without the blog creator doing anything?
Thanks
Joe
Hi Joe,
I think that is a feature of the suffusion theme, this is not available in Glow Blogs anymore although it works on sites that have applied it before it was retired:
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/2015/07/14/theme-changes-july-2015/
I have just created a website for our school via the glow blog. It displays fine on laptop and ipad but on mobile phones you cannot access any further than the first stage of a menu. eg if you click Parents on the menu bar you cannot then see the menu items associated with this. How do I fix this?
Thanks
Fiona
Hi Fiona,
If you press the down arrow rather than the name of the menu it should open the sub menus. I’ve tested your site, briefly, on my phone and it seems to work as expected. I hope this helps.
Cheers
John
Hi,
I believe there is a problem with any Glow blog that uses the ‘Yoko’ theme. I am trying to set the tag on the page using the normal way, through settings on the dashboard. This does not update the tag for this theme (It displays correctly in other themes).
As a result the tab in a web browser does not show the proper
I realise this is a minor issue, but would be nice to have a fix.
Thanks,
David
Thanks David, we have logged this as a defect. It will be reviewed soon. I’ll add it to the FAQ asap.
Hi,
I forgot to update this, but the problem with Yoko has been fixed.