Asset Tags

Sometimes a plugin wants to add some CSS and JavaScript to your theme, for example, the Cookie Consent plugin. It adds a cookie consent popup to all pages, so that users can agree to the cookie policy of your website.

There are three Twig-tags, that allow plugins to add meta-tags, JavaScript and CSS. Please make sure that you add these tags to your theme, because otherwise, the plugins won't work:

• {{ assets.addMeta() }}
• {{ assets.renderCSS() }}
• {{ assets.renderJS() }}

#renderMeta()

You can add standard meta tags with the twig-function {{ assets.renderMeta() }}. It is also possible to add all metatags manually, but in this case no plugins can add additional meta-tags and no plugins can manipulate existing meta-tags. So it is highly recommended to use the renderMeta() function.

Be aware that renderMeta() will not render all meta-tags, so you should add some tags manually. The most important tags that you have to add manually are:

• title
• description
• canonical

So a standard layout-template might look like this:

  <title>{% block title %}{% endblock %}</title>

  <meta name="description" content="{{ metatabs.meta.description }}" />
  <meta name="author" content="{{ metatabs.meta.author }}" />
  <meta name="generator" content="Typemill" /> 
  <meta rel="canonical" href="{{ item.urlAbs }}" /> 

  {{ assets.renderMeta() }}

#renderCSS()

It is recommended to add the CSS tag after all your css files, and before the closing `` tag. It is also a good practice in Twig to wrap your ressources in a block-tag. You can read more about this in the Twig chapter.

  <title>title</title>
  ....
  ....
  {% block stylesheets %}
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ base_url }}/themes/mytheme/css/style.css">

    {{ assets.renderCSS() }}

  {% endblock %}

#renderJS()

The same for JavaScript: It is recommended to place all JavaScript at the end of the page before the closing `` tag. And you should wrap all your JavaScript in a block-element, too:

  ...
  {{ content }}
  ...
  ...

  {% block javascripts %}

   <script src="{{ base_url }}/themes/yourtheme/js/my.js"></script>

   {{ assets.renderJS() }}

 {% endblock %}