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I would like the title of posts to be placed in the meta title tag and the opening 140 characters of the content included in the meta description tag.

I think I saw an add on to dynamically create meta tags based on post, but have not been able to find it today. Not sure how to limit inclusion to first 140 chars.

Is any of this capability now built into EE 2?

Put your html header info in an embedded template.

Then pass the meta stuff through using embed variables for embedded templates.

Use the Character Limiter to set the l40 - you’ll probably also need the Strip HTML plugin to remove markup.

This approach will work in EE 1 or 2.

You can easily do that by using another weblog:entries tag. To shorten the body to 140 characters you’d use a plugin. There are also third-party add-ons like LG Better Meta.

Would this be the correct code to place in the head section of the template?

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{master_weblog_name}"}
<META NAME="title" CONTENT="{title}" />
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="{exp:char_limit total="100"}{article_content}{/exp:char_limit}" />
{/exp:weblog:entries}

The LG add-on looks like it gives lots of options, but does not appear that could be applied to existing posts (i.e. it would only apply to posts after it is installed and added to the template.) I have about 1200 existing posts I would like this applied to.

Yes, something like your snippet should work. Be sure to use the disable= parameter, too. Also, you might want to limit it to 1 entry.

Thanks. This is exactly what I needed.

Thanks for the input, all. Glad you have a solution!