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#4318 – When a URL has a ?param=something, Meta title and description screws up

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Thursday, 16 November 2017 11:52 UTC

chizuoka

If we take for example

https://www.xxxx.com/referrals
The title and description is
- Share your love of travel
- Introduce a friend to xxxx and earn 10% commission of the amount each time they spend on travel with xxxx until March 2020

But if its
https://www.xxxx.com/referrals?referralcode=ade2
The title and description is
- xxxx
- {Nothing}

But something else is generating the title and description higher up in the code, but seems SH404 one is being selected for display in FB Debug. Could you help tell me what other joomla components usually create those OG stuff?

Thursday, 16 November 2017 11:59 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

It's K2 generating those OGP data, based on the article content.

I don't know why including a referral in the URL would cause an issue in setting up the title and description, unless you have entered those manually in the URL manager. If so, then it is normal that adding the query var breaks things, as title/description is attached to the URL, and by adding the referral variable, you make this page have a different URL.

Rgds

Thursday, 16 November 2017 13:52 UTC

chizuoka

Is there any way around it

Thursday, 16 November 2017 14:19 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Around what? you did not confirm what you are doing. Is my hypothesis correct? areyou overriding manually inside of sh404SEF ? are your sure it's not your referral extension that's override the title/desc?

Rgds

Wednesday, 22 November 2017 11:43 UTC

chizuoka

Yes im overriding with a custom title n desc. Im just adding a ?param=X in back. Its not a extension, just another component. QUIX to be exact. Do you mean by adding a ? it will make SH404 think its a different URL.

Wednesday, 22 November 2017 11:45 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

If you add ?param=x, then you are making it an entirely different URL and the custom meta data does not apply, which is why you lose the custom description/title.

Rgds

Wednesday, 22 November 2017 12:02 UTC

chizuoka

Is there a workaround for this? To have sh404sef ignore the ?param

Wednesday, 22 November 2017 12:03 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Not really, if you change the URL, you change it, it's a different. It'd be very hard to know which param are ok, and which are not.

Rgds

Tuesday, 28 November 2017 04:32 UTC

chizuoka

thanks anywya

Tuesday, 28 November 2017 09:33 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Closing this ticket now, feel free to open a new one as needed. If you do so, please mention this ticket number in the new one.

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