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Google Search Console integration plugin

Overview

This plugin integrates with the Google Search Console API to provide up-to-date information about indexing status of your pages.

Configuration Steps

Important: you need to invite the user gsc-86@flotiq-main-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com to your Google Search Console property for this to work.

1. Go to your Flotiq UI and select Plugins from the left side menu.
2. Find the Google Search Console plugin and enable it, wait for the UI to reload.
3. Click Manage and then Add item in the configuration window.
4. Select the Content Type, where you want to configure the plugin.
5. Provide the Site URL that you have in Google Search Console, for domain properties add a trailing slash at the end.
6. Define a route for the pages, use curly braces, e.g. /blog/{slug}/

Using the plugin

1. Once the plugin is configured - go to the configured Content Type and edit one of the objects.
2. Google index status will display in the right sidebar after a moment.

Development

Quick start

1. yarn - to install dependencies
2. yarn start - to start development mode - rebuild on file modifications
3. update your plugin-manifest.json file to contain the production URL and other plugin information
4. yarn build - to build plugins

Dev environment

Dev environment is configured to use:

• prettier - best used with automatic format on save in IDE
• eslint - it is built into both start and build commands

Output

The plugins are built into a single dist/index.js file. The manifest is copied to dist/plugin-manifest.json file.

Deployment

Loading the plugin

Warning: While developing, you can use https://localhost:3053/plugin-manifest.json address to load the plugin manifest. Make sure your browser trusts the local certificate on the latter, to be able to use it e.g. with https://editor.flotiq.com

URL

Hint: You can use localhost url from development mode https://localhost:3053/index.js

1. Open Flotiq editor
2. Open Chrome Dev console
3. Execute the following script

   FlotiqPlugins.loadPlugin('plugin-id', '<URL TO COMPILED JS>')

4. Navigate to the view that is modified by the plugin

Directly

1. Open Flotiq editor
2. Open Chrome Dev console
3. Paste the content of dist/index.js
4. Navigate to the view that is modified by the plugin

Deployment

Hint: You can use localhost url from development mode https://localhost:3053/plugin-manifest.json

1. Open Flotiq editor
2. Add a new plugin and paste the URL to the hosted plugin-manifest.json file
3. Navigate to the view that is modified by the plugin