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Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook

By : Richard Carter
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook

By: Richard Carter

Overview of this book

<p>Get to grips with Drupal Commerce, the new ecommerce framework based on the Drupal CMS , one of the most popular and powerful open source content management systems available.<br /><br />"Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook" takes you through the installation, configuration, and customisation of your Drupal Commerce store. With clear, practical recipes with plenty of screenshots and tips this book will help you build attractive and profitable eCommerce sites.<br /><br />This book starts by showing you how to install and configure your Drupal Commerce store. Once your shop is up and running, you’ll then learn how to customise and optimise it to make it stand out and display your products better.<br /><br />Going further into customisation, you will learn to add custom product types before creating a stylish new Drupal theme for your store. Packed with tips, this book will also help guide you through common problems, as well as optimising and managing your store on a day to day basis.<br /><br />"Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook" will guide you through everything you need to know to get your online store up and running and selling your products, with easy step-by-step guides and screenshots to help walk you through everything.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding a meta description field to your Drupal Commerce product display


The days of the meta keywords field's usefulness have long since disappeared after years of abuse and keyword-stuffing. The meta description field can still be useful as it is displayed in the search engine results pages in search engines, though. Drupal Commerce doesn't give products description fields by default, so you will need to install a module to achieve what you are after.

The following example shows the first result for the search term richard carter, web designer in Google. Below the page's title and the URL, you can see that part of the page's meta description at the time of writing is used as the page's description:

Similarly, in Bing, the meta description of the page is shown in the search engine results page too:

Getting ready

Download the Meta Tags Quick module from Drupal.org at http://drupal.org/project/metatags_quick, and install this to your Drupal Commerce installation.

How to do it...

Once you have installed...