Find Missing Tags utility

How-To

What this Command does is very simple: if reports to you all the documents that lack a Title (or whose Title contains "untitled" or some other options - for which see below), or has no (meta)Keywords or (meta)Descriptions. The report format is HTML, so you can read and save it easily within Dreamweaver.

Files searched are those with extensions of:: .htm, .html, .asp, .shtml, .shtm, .dwt, .php, .php3, .php4, .aspx, .cfm and .jsp

Note that DW Templates are searched but DW Library items are not. If there are other file types that you would like added to this list, please let me know!

Note also that some of this functionality actually exists within DW - if you prefer to use several features of DW's Find/Replace. And you can find Untitled documents using Site/Reports - altho you cannot find those with your choice of text as you can with this extension. It is my hope that this extension will help you work more efficiently.

How-to use:

Open a document on your Site, and then select "Find Missing Tags" from the Commands/Valleywebdesigns.com menu. This will open its User Interface, which is quite straightforward.

Documents to Examine:

Current Open (and Saved) Documents:: Only those files currently open and saved will be examined.
Selected Documents in Site Window:: Notice the name of the current site printed atop the User Interface (UI). You must select the very files you wish to examine, as directories are ignored.
All Documents in Site:: the entire site is examined.

Check for these tags:

Here you get to choose which Tags (of Title, metaKeywords and metaDescription) to report on when the Command runs.

Title containing's TextBox:: Here you may add custom strings to report out as a "check title". This is a comma-separated list. Note: An asterisk (*) can be used as a wild-card for the document's filename. Missing Title Tags, blank Titles, and the term "untitled" are always included in the search. If you remove the string "untitled" from this text box, it will magically reappear. Note also that the search performed is NOT case-sensitive. For ease of use, the strings in this textbox are remembered for this site, so you won't have to re-enter them.
Keywords and Description:: Self-evident.

The Report format:

Site :: test Search for Title, Keywords, Description tags among selected files Custom strings searched in Title: "untitled,*"
t0.htm	missing Title Tag <- Title Tag is absent.
	missing Meta Keywords Tag <- Keywords Tag is absent.
test.asp	check Title <- "Untitled", or contains one of the strings in the "Title containing" textbox.
	empty Meta Description <- Description Tag is present but blank.
	missing Meta Keywords Tag <- Keywords Tag is absent.
test2.cfm	no Head Tag, search halted <- if no Head tag is found, the document is not searched.
phptestfiles/test2a.php	empty Title <- Title Tag is present but blank.
	missing all Meta Tags <- no meta tags of any type were found.

^---	--- Note the file paths are root-relative

That's all there is to it!