Magento Extension: Optimised Contacts

One thing has always bothered me about a fresh Magento install, and that’s knowing that there’s a sorry-looking contacts page pre-installed with no meta data and no other company details. Just a form which is plain as arsecheeks.

I developed this simple extension with two objectives:

Allow users to set the Page Title and Meta Data of their contacts pageAllow users to display standard other company details on this page (phone number, Twitter, address etc…)

The extension is now available on Magento connect: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/optimised-contacts-1068.html

Verssion 0.1.0 can also be downloaded here: Creare_Optimisedcontacts.zip

This module has been successfully tested on Magento 1.4 & 1.5It should work no problem on 1.6 too, but hasn’t been tested yet (let me know)

The module makes use of the company details that you have already set in your Magento configuration, and it adds a few more. You can now enter your Twitter name, Fax number and display email address. This is located in Configuration > General > Store Information

On the frontend it is displayed underneath the contact form. It wasn’t possible to put it above the contact form and under the

tag without overwriting the entire file, which I wanted to avoid.

The next feature is the ability to set page title, meta description and meta keywords values. Your contact us page should be treated as a very important page when it comes to SEO – Google often likes to add pagelinks to contact pages due to their popularity with web surfers.

This can all be set in Configuration > Contacts > Contact Page SEO

Couldn’t be much simpler really eh? This is only version 0.1.0, so there’ll be plenty of updates and improvements coming out in the future, and it will be available on Magento Connect very soon.

Thanks for reading the Magento Blog at Ecommerce Web Design – I look forward to any feedback.

Adam Moss Author Page

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