CHAPTER 9
Microdata or Rich Snippets
The use of microdata (sometimes called structured data or rich snippets) is not yet fully implemented in Joomla at the time of writing. Some, however, are already hard-coded in the most important parts of Joomla, such as the actual articles and the Contacts component. Joomla 2.5, unfortunately, misses out on this, though there are alternative solutions that I will discuss.
What is microdata? Microdata is the use of special metadata in your existing HTML tags that provides further meaning and classification. While a <div> or <span> does not provide any relevance, by adding microdata, this is achieved. It’s ...
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