@art-design-digital/payload-plugin-seo

Payload SEO-Plugin

This plugin implements some important SEO features for PayloadCMS.

It adds desired collections and globals fields that can be filled to provide various SEO metadata. It also supports editors in maintaining SEO data by requiring some fields as mandatory data and generating previews for the search results.

Fields and functions in detail

Preview

This field automatically generates a preview of how this page may appear in search results from the data provided. It has an option to switch between mobile and desktop previews. So the editor can see how the result looks for both breakpoints.

Title

Description

Picture

Allow indexing

Allow following links

Additional Robots tags

Change frequency

Priority

Installation and usage of the plugin

Installation

The plugin is an official npm library that can be installed via

npm install @art-design-digital/payload-plugin-seo

or via

yarn add @art-design-digital/payload-plugin-seo

Usage

The plugin is a plugin for PayloadCMS and so it can be installed by adding it to the plugins array in the payload.config.ts

The plugin works by adding no parameters (even no empty object) but it is disabled in using it this way. You have to set at least the props object with the enabled property to enable it.

plugins: [
  seoPlugin({
    enabled: true
  })
]

Here is the list of all available parameters that can be set in the plugin.

Name	Description	Type	Default
enabled	Switches the whole plugin on or off.	boolean	false
collections	Array of slugs that defines in which collections the plugin shall be used.	string[]	[]
globals	Array of slugs that defines in which globals the plugin shall be used.	string[]	[]
mediaCollection	Tell the plugin which collection shall be used for uploading a photo for a team member.	string	'media'
generateSEOTitleFrom	Define the field from which the SEO-Title shall be generated from when clicking on Save.	string	''
insertBefore	Define on which position the field should be rendered in a specific global or collection. If nothing is set here the fields are appended.	{collections: [{slug: string, field: string}], globals: [{slug: string, field: string}]}	{}

In this example you can see a full working configuration for a demo project.

seoPlugin({
  enabled: true,
  collections: ['examples', 'some-collection'],
  globals: ['demo-global'],
  mediaCollection: 'media',
  generateSEOTitleFrom: 'someField',
  insertBefore: {
    globals: [
      {
        slug: 'demo-global',
        field: 'description',
      },
    ],
    collections: [
      {
        slug: 'examples',
        field: 'anotherField',
      },
      {
        slug: 'some-collection',
        field: 'niceField',
      },
    ],
  },
})

TODO's

• Custom position of the seo fields
• Add meta fields for robots.txt and headers
• Translations
• Choose if seo fields are rendered in tabs or as collapsible
• Precise field choice for the generateTitleFrom function
• Add static appended parts of the SEO-Title if set and include this in calculating the length indicator

Questions

Please contact art&design digital with any questions about using this plugin.