MetaDetail Add for the newly created Blog Posts & News

Posted by Community Admin on 26-Jul-2016 00:00

As per the requirement, Need to create Meta Title, Meta Description & Meta Keywords for all of the pages which will be available after creating of an every individual blog posts & news.

One of the solution which I have tried was as mentioned (This was taken from here ):

Step 1 : Create custom fields inside the blog post

Step 2 : Use of an ActionFilter

namespace SitefinityWebApp

/// <summary>

/// Blog Attribute

/// </summary>

public class BlogMetaAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute

/// <summary>

/// MetaTitle variable

/// </summary>

public string MetaTitle get; set;

/// <summary>

/// Override the on Action Executing

/// </summary>

/// <param name="filterContext"></param>

public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)

base.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);

if (filterContext.Controller.GetType() == typeof(NewsController) && filterContext.ActionDescriptor.ActionName == "Details")

var actionParameters = filterContext.ActionParameters as IDictionary<string, object>;

var newsItem = actionParameters["newsItem"] as NewsItem;

if (newsItem != null)

this.MetaTitle = newsItem.Title;

this.Register();

/// <summary>

/// Register Events

/// </summary>

private void Register()

EventHub.Unsubscribe<IPagePreRenderCompleteEvent>(OnPagePreRenderCompleteEventHandler);

EventHub.Subscribe<IPagePreRenderCompleteEvent>(OnPagePreRenderCompleteEventHandler);

/// <summary>

///

/// </summary>

/// <param name="event"></param>

private void OnPagePreRenderCompleteEventHandler(IPagePreRenderCompleteEvent @event)

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(this.MetaTitle))

HtmlMeta tag = new HtmlMeta();

tag.Attributes.Add("property", "title");

tag.Content = this.MetaTitle;

@event.Page.Header.Controls.Add(tag);

Step 3 : Filter simply register in the Global.asax

protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)

Bootstrapper.Initialized += this.Bootstrapper_Initialized;

private void Bootstrapper_Initialized(object sender, Telerik.Sitefinity.Data.ExecutedEventArgs e)

if (e.CommandName == "Bootstrapped")

GlobalFilters.Filters.Add(new FacebookMetaAttribute());

Still unable to load meta detail inside the page

Posted by Community Admin on 26-Jul-2016 00:00

I met the same situation with meta title and meta description.

I just copied source code of existing News widget. Renamed it to Custom News widget. Added new fields (title, description and keywords) to model.

And in controller Details action added

ViewBag.Title = "something here";

ViewBag.Title automatically overrides old titile

You can find source code of News widget here: https://github.com/Sitefinity/feather-widgets/tree/master/Telerik.Sitefinity.Frontend.News/

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