Manufacturer SEO for OpenCart 2.3–4.x — meta tags, H1 and texts for brand pages

Manufacturer SEO gives OpenCart brand pages what the core lacks entirely: their own Meta Title, Meta Description, H1 and a text above the product list, for every brand and every store language. Stock OpenCart keeps only a name, an image and a sort order for a manufacturer, so a brand page shows no description and meta tags built from the bare name. The module patches no core file: everything runs on events, and switching it off brings the stock page back.

Checked on four OpenCart versions. The module was checked in a browser on real OpenCart 4.1.0.3, 4.0.2.3, 3.0.5.0 and 2.3.0.2. It needs no outside service, so there is no stand-in here.

What the free version does

For 10 brands: Meta Title, Meta Description, H1 and the text above the products, in every language of the store. The brand list page gets its own meta and text. Page 2 and later of the pagination get a suffix in the title so they are not duplicates. Texts are stored as HTML with a tag allowlist (paragraphs, bold, italic, lists, links, h2 and h3 headings): scripts and event handlers are removed on save and again on output.

What Pro adds

An unlimited number of brands, templates with placeholders ({manufacturer}, {count}, {min_price}, {max_price}, {store_name}, {year}, {month}, {page}) and a bulk fill with a progress bar, the text under the products, a brand banner, Meta Keywords and Brand JSON-LD markup. The bulk fill writes its result into the module table, so it stays editable by hand, and it does not overwrite texts written by hand.

How it works, step by step

1. Install the zip for your OpenCart version and enable the module.
2. Open the Manufacturers tab and press Edit next to a brand.
3. Fill in Meta Title, Meta Description, H1 and the text above the products for each language.
4. Open the brand page in the shop and check the page source.

Under the hood

• The language is found by code, not by number: it works in shops whose language ids start at 2.
• Meta values are escaped once on output; texts go through a tag allowlist.
• The module event runs after SEO Pack: a hand-written brand text beats a generated one.
• Languages: English, Ukrainian.

How to install

1. Extensions → Installer: upload the zip.
2. Extensions → Modules: install and open the module.
3. Open the Manufacturers tab in the module settings.
4. Try one test order.

Install: Extensions → Installer → upload the zip of your branch (cc_brands for 4.x, cc_brands-oc3 for 3.0, cc_brands-oc23 for 2.3), then Extensions → Modules → install and open the module.