According to my client's requirement, I need to change the order of meta tags. The requirements are also to hide some of the meta tags.
The order requested is similar to the following one.
<Title>
<Description>
<keywords>
Is there a module to achieve this easily, do I need to edit the files of the Metatag module?
To alter the order of specific meta tags, a hook_html_head_alter() implementation in your theme's template.php file would be your best bet:
function MYTHEME_html_head_alter(&$head_elements) {
// Combined with the devel module this line will tell you what elements you have to work with
dpm($head_elements);
// Any you can just alter the weight like this
$head_elements['module:key']['#weight'] = -1000;
$head_elements['another_module:another_key']['#weight'] = -999;
}
$head_elements array to see what's in it...the dpm() method through the Devel module would be easiest as noted in the comments
HTML head elements are defined in 2 places.
html.tpl.php.<head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" />
<?php print $head; ?>
<title><?php print $head_title; ?></title>
<?php print $styles; ?>
<?php print $scripts; ?>
<!--[if lt IE 9]><script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script><![endif]-->
</head>
So, here you can put title before other headers. It's wise to leave CSS and JS parts at the end, in the order specified.
$head variable,For Drupal 6, in template.php define THEMENAME__preprocess_page(&$variables), and alter or reorder $variables['header'] as you please. Keep in mind that it may break other modules, especially if you will remove things. Reordering is relatively safe, adding is usually safe, removal is risky.
For Drupal 7 see answer by Clive. THEMENAME__preprocess_page(&$variables) would still work, but 7 provides more direct solution to your problem.
