Why are the metatags from news missing?

Question

TYPO3 6.2.33, ext:news 3.2.8

On the detail page the view of the news-plugin uses the opengraph partial to set the og-metatags. These tags are added to the metatag array of the pagerenderer (seen in vardump in the news VH n:metaTag),

But in the resulting HTML none of these tags appear. Some metatags, set in Typoscript like page.meta.title and which are in the array before, are visible.

If I modify the n:meataTag-VH to add these meatatags also to the footer ($pageRenderer->addFooterData(...)), they appear in the footer area of the generated page.

A similar configuration with TYPO3 7.6.22 and ext:news 5.3.3 does work ('og:'-metatags are set from news-detailed-template with the n:metaTag-VH)

Answer 1

It is hard to answer that as you don't give a lot of information about the site yourself. 6.2 is end of life as well. Things improved in the meantime.

For testing try to remove the whole TypoScript and only use some basic like

page = PAGE
page.10 < styles.content.get

Does it work then? If yes, it is your site setup.

Answer 2

We had the same issue on a TYPO3 6.2.31 site. The tx_news extension did not render the og and meta description inside the header tag.

Below you can find a solution for this problem:

Open: news/Classes/ViewHelpers/MetaTagViewHelper.php

On line 84 you can find:

$pageRenderer->addMetaTag($this->tag->render());

Renamed the line to:

// Will not render the meta tags on TYPO3 6.2.X:
//$pageRenderer->addMetaTag($this->tag->render());
// Below line is a workaround and will place the meta tags right above the </head>.
$pageRenderer->addHeaderData($this->tag->render());