Action to copy description to meta description

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.6.0
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Hello,

I am needing to copy the first part of the product's description to the meta description field and I am wondering if this can be done with a mass action or if a MySQL query would be needed. Also, can a limit be placed on the length of text copied over? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Mike

Hi,

Have you noticed and tried what's already available "out of the box"? In the HikaShop backend -> System -> Configuration -> tab Features -> SEF url options, please look at the options "Automatic product keywords and metadescription filling" and "Maximum size of the metadescription". Is that perhaps what you need?

Hello,

I have seen this option and it is enabled, but it only works if you go in and save each product individually. I have hundreds of products already created and I do not want to go through this process. Also, this automatic option seems to convert all of the text to lowercase letters, which is not helpful for meta descriptions. It is fine for meta keywords, but those are no longer used by Google.

Mike

Hi,

Thanks to the mass actions you can automatically set the "product_meta_description" from the "product_description", this will keep the upper-cases but you can't set a description length, it will be automatically cut after 255 characters and the html tags will be present.

So to set a description lenght and not have the html tags, it will require custom code.
The creation of a mass action for example, you can create a new plugin, take the existing version of the "onProcessProductMassActionupdateValues()" then paste it and adapt it in the plugin.

www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/s...s-action-plugin.html