SEO meta tags and page translations

Two independent changes improving the site's visibility and accessibility: Open Graph / Twitter Card meta tags for link previews and translations of additional pages.

Open Graph and Twitter Card

Sharing a blog link on Slack, Discord or Facebook produced a generic preview with no title, description or image. OG and Twitter Card meta tags were missing.

I added them to the main layout (app.blade.php) with sensible defaults:

<meta property="og:type" content="@yield('og_type', 'website')">
<meta property="og:title" content="@yield('og_title', 'Extended\Mind::Thesis()')">
<meta property="og:description" content="@yield('og_description', 'Tech blog...')">
<meta property="og:image" content="@yield('og_image', url('/images/og-cover.png'))">

<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="@yield('og_title', 'Extended\Mind::Thesis()')">

The post view overrides values dynamically:

@section('og_type', 'article')
@section('og_title', $post['title'])
@section('og_description', Str::limit(strip_tags(Str::markdown($post['content'])), 160))
@section('og_image', $post['cover_image'])

The default og-cover.png (1200x630px) is shown for pages without a dedicated image — the homepage, about, contact. Posts with a cover image get their own.

Key detail: twitter:card set to summary_large_image gives a large image preview on Twitter/X. og:locale changes dynamically based on the active language (pl_PL / en_US).

Collaboration page translations

The /collaboration page had hardcoded Polish text in the template. I moved everything to translation files:

• lang/pl/collaboration.php — 20 keys
• lang/en/collaboration.php — 20 keys

This covers: the header, what I offer (dev, code review, consulting), the collaboration process (4 steps) and the CTA.

{{-- Before --}}
<h2>Co oferuję</h2>
<p>Tworzenie aplikacji webowych w Laravel...</p>

{{-- After --}}
<h2>{{ __('collaboration.offer_heading') }}</h2>
<p>{{ $service['desc'] }}</p>

Versions

• frontend → v1.19.0 (collaboration translations), v1.20.0 (OG/Twitter meta tags)