Joomla’s metadata is output by a simple jdoc statement from within the website’s template:
1 | <jdoc:include type="head" /> |
When the template is up and running on a website that simple line will produce the relevant metadata in the HTML:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | <base href="http://www.example.com/" /> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" /> <meta name="keywords" content="fun" /> <meta name="title" content="Welcome" /> <meta name="author" content="Joe Bloggs" /> <meta name="description" content="A great website" /> <meta name="generator" content="Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management" /> |
But sometimes you don’t want all of this metadata – in my case I didn’t want to output the author tag. As it turns out this is really simple to do because Joomla provides an in-built option, so there’s no coding changes required to the template. Great!
- Login as a super administrator.
- Go to “Site > Global Configuration” (or just click the big icon with that label):
- In the “Metadata Settings” panel, at the bottom of the page, set “Show Author Meta Tag” to “No”:
- Click the “Save” button in the top-right.
As you can see it’s also possible to hide the title meta tag in much the same way, should you want to.