Last reviewed: September 17, 2025

Metadata fields

Introduction

Content Publisher allows you to enrich the content defined in the main document body by defining a set of metadata fields that can be used by content creators. These metadata fields are typically used for purposes such as defining the HTML metadata used for SEO, setting the open graph  content used by social platforms when embedding your content, defining any sort of categorization of your content, identifying related content or assets and many more.

As different users of Content Publisher might have different needs for these fields, we made this feature customizable and extensible. Each Content Publisher customer can define the fields that fit their specific needs.

Default metadata fields

Here are the default metadata fields that Content Publisher provides out of the box for every collection:

Title

Typically used for the HTML TITLE TAG as well as the main title in any of Content Publisher user interface.

Slug

Technical field used to define the final url of the full view of the content on the website.

Description

Typically used for the HTML META DESCRIPTION tag that is used by search engines and other systems. Also used for the Open Graph description field and used for navigation within sites (in content cards).

Image

Typically used for the main Open Graph image used by social media platforms when they embed the content, as well as for any internal visual representing the content (thumbnails or content cards), as well as the WordPress thumbnail image when Content Publisher is used together with WordPress.

Tags

A list of tags that is typically used by WordPress to match with the standard WordPress tag field. This can be used for any other needs for navigation or categorization of content on any site.


Usage

Edit page metadata

Authorized users and administrators can set metadata for individual documents using the Google Docs add-on:  

  1. Go to an existing document that is already connected to a collection or connect a new document to a collection
  2. Click Edit next to Metadata either
    1. while editing  
    2. or publishing

Gen AI Suggestions

When editing metadata you have the option to enable AI auto-suggestions using the toggle at the top right of the window.

The recommendations provided by Content Publisher are orchestrated by Google Vertex AI, and by default, the system relies on Gemini 1.5 Pro model. Models are however configurable and it is possible to define custom setups for your collections.

Custom metadata fields

Administrators of the collection can create custom metadata fields:

  1. Go to an existing document that is already connected to a collection or connect a new document to a collection
  2. Go to About this collection > Page metadata settings
  3. Click + Create new field

After creation, the new custom metadata field will be enabled for usage across all connected documents in the collection.

Custom field types

  • Text
  • Text area
  • Boolean
  • Date
  • File (previously named URL)
  • List

If any other field type is required, please contact support or suggest it on our product roadmap.