Custom Title Tag Hack for every page

[barnett]

@ limin - to my knowledge sections can only appear if you link to them from a menu, so you can set the custom title in the menu params.

@ mattr2110 - categories are a different question.  If they are linked to directly in the menu then the same applies from above, otherwise I'm not sure how to do it since there are no params for categories. 

-barnett

[leslienord]

Can this be used after implementing the Joomla SEF Patch? I found that patch before I found this.

[slimtreeshadow]

A great addition - thanks so much!

-adam

[Lionel]

First thank you for that solution.
It appears that linked menus to static content are unaffected by that hack. Can someone confirm please?

[jkrobin]

With the default includes/joomla.php, how would I go about just reversing the SiteName-PageTitle order? (This is with dynamic page titles turned on and working at present (http://www.shadowmonkey.net).

The result I'm looking for is to have PageTitle-SiteName show up insteaded of SiteName-PageTitle.

Thanks for any help.

jkrobin

[barnett]

With the default includes/joomla.php, how would I go about just reversing the SiteName-PageTitle order?

For the default includes/joomla.php look in the setPageTitle() function and replace this line:

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$this->_head['title'] = $title ? $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'] . ' - '. $title : $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'];

with this line:

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$this->_head['title'] = $title ? $title . ' - '. $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'] : $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'];

if you are using the Custom Title Tag hack I created above and want to switch the order look in the same function and replace:

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$title = $custom_title ? $custom_title : $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'] . ' - '. $title;

with this:

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$title = $custom_title ? $custom_title : $title . ' - '. $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'];

or if you want the Site Name to follow your Custom Title Tag then switch the same line with:

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$title = $custom_title ? $custom_title . ' - '. $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'] : $title . ' - '. $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'];

Enjoy.
-barnett

[jkrobin]

Thanks very much, barnett! ...works great.

-jkrobin

[krishtaurus]

Hello Barnett,

Thanks for such wonderful procedure for custom title tag. After using this hack we are able to place custom tag on each page, but we are still not able to edit the Meta Tags on the index page. Can you help me in placing custom Meta Tags on the index page. One more issue which I need to discuss is, after using the hack I find Two Title Tags been generated on my page, as shown below

This is your custom title


Is there any option to omit from the page...

Thanks!

[spacebass5000]

First thank you for that solution.
It appears that linked menus to static content are unaffected by that hack. Can someone confirm please?

It looks to me that any menu type "Link - *" inherits the custom title of what it is actually linking to. I tried linking the Home link in my main menu to my top menu and the custom title I set for my top menu link did not get displayed.

[Scarpantibus]

Hi, I have a problem - that I partially solved - with apostrophe in page titles.

If the custom title contains an apostrophe a slash is been added before it.
So, if title_cust parameter is
Bob's page

the page title will be rendered as
Bob\''s page

My solution consists in changing the joomla.php hack in the following way (modificaitions in bold red):

function setPageTitle( $title=null, $params=null ) {
if (@$GLOBALS['mosConfig_pagetitles']) {
if ($params) {
$custom_title = stripslashes($params->def( 'title_cust', '' ));
} else {
global $database, $mainframe, $Itemid;
$params = new stdClass();
if ( $Itemid ) {
$menu = new mosMenu( $database );
$menu->load( $Itemid );
$params = new mosParameters( $menu->params );
} else {
$menu = "";
$params = new mosParameters( '' );
}
$custom_title = stripslashes($params->def( 'title_cust', '' ));
}
$title = $custom_title ? $custom_title : $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'] . ' - '. $title;
$title = stripslashes( $title );
$title = trim( htmlspecialchars( $title ) );
$this->_head['title'] = $title ? $title : $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'];
}
}


Not very complex, as you can see...a simple stripslashes command.
This solves the problem on the frontend: the page title has no more slashes.

But doesn't solve the problem in the backend. Infact, clicking on a content Item to edit it, the 'Custom Title' parameter filed contains the slashes. Saving the content without correcting it means that next time i click on that content i will find one more slash...and so on.

I repeat: this doesn't affect my frontpage, the user won't see any slash. But I think that my solution in not very elegant...
Does anyone have a better idea?

Thank you,
Scarpantibus

[shawn122]

general comment:  its a good hack but becomes pointless when Joomla issues so many release versions that forces you to re edit the files in question.  When you maintain a large numbers of Joomla sites, it becomes a real pain in the but.  I cant see why this can't be implemented into the core instead of it being a "hack"

I like the Joomla SEF patch and that should also get taken into consideration.

[spacebass5000]

I agree. It would be nice to see this included in the core files. This is a HUGE issue for any site wanting to tweak their meta-tags for SEO purposes.

[JSalvador]

Just wanted to say thanks. This really helped me

[caribk]

great hack by the way..

just noticed while implementing this for SEO purposes that in components/com_content/content.php (J! 1.0.10) there are calls to SetPageTitle instead of setPageTitle, and the only implementation of a page title function i can find is the setPageTitle in includes/joomla.php.

is this a type-o, or am i missing something?

[josey]

great hack. thanks.

it seemed to work on the site i used it on, but the second site i did it shows the title tag field on the content pages, but only shows up on the site's title area if the page is a static page?

joomla 1.0.11

any ideas
cheers
############

fixed it. i triple checked the .xml files, moved the parm to the top, and edited the title tag field in the content pull down list, instead of going to the mainmenu list of pages, where i also have a title tag fields.

cheers

[php4ever]

Here is a zip file I created with all the changes and backups in place. 

Its intended for use by new installs of Joomla 1.0.11, however if you have third party components you will just need to go to those components and add the following line as originally instructed.



I will maintain successive packages to help out with barnett if thats ok, as each release of Joomla becomes available so in the event that Joomla releases 1.0.12 and so on I'll make it as an easy drop in.

Just follow the instructions in the README.TXT file included with the zip. http://www.jaredsdesigns.com/downloads/ ... 1.0.11.zip

~ Jared
POST KEYWORDS: "Joomla 1.0.11 Custom Title, Titles Tags, Dynamic Titles"
PS Good Job "barnett"

[triggeru571]

This is a great hack, thanks. Been looking around for some time. But now my opensef refuses to work for any new URL's. If fine for anything which exists, I just cant get it to re-write new ones. Any idea?

[triggeru571]

This is a great hack, thanks. Been looking around for some time. But now my opensef refuses to work for any new URL's. If fine for anything which exists, I just cant get it to re-write new ones. Any idea?

opps - sorry guys - False Alarm. My mistake! I must have turned off theEnable SEF URL's from the main config. Its now working perfectly.

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[LeGaS]

This is a really nice hack, but I've got a problem with it.
When I edit the components/com_content/content.php file and upload it, then all of my content items disappear. They are in the database and in the administration, but I can't see them on the frontpage / menu items.

Do you have any idea?

[php4ever]

this happens when you edit that file in more than one place.

Download the examples I have above in the zip file and try the content.php file in there and see if that helps.



Jared

[LeGaS]

Great, thanks! It solved the problem.

Regards,
LeGaS

[slimtreeshadow]

Anyone try this w/ upgrade installations? I've upgraded to 1.011 from about 1.07 or so. Before I risk it I wanted to check if anyone else tried already.

[patjk]

Works nicely, thanks.

[eyezberg]

Using SEF Advance, Joomla 1.0.11, SEF Patch.
Applied all 4 steps, double checked all changes.
Only thing that works is for content items, the content title is now used.
Any custom title inserted on menu links is simply ignored?!
Help welcome.

[infinitimm]

Thanks Barnett,

A well considered and elegant solution to this problem, you have done us all a great service. Works brilliantly for me and will really help my optimisation.

Very good instructions, I am just a lowly web designer and not a programmer, but could follow the instructions to the letter.

[eyezberg]

Does this work for you guys WITH SEF Advance (or another 3rd party sef solution) enabled?
I checked all edits again, it should be ok but works only on content items!? Not links to categoruies, sections or any other components I edited the xml for..

[barnett]

Using SEF Advance, Joomla 1.0.11, SEF Patch.
Applied all 4 steps, double checked all changes.
Only thing that works is for content items, the content title is now used.
Any custom title inserted on menu links is simply ignored?!
Help welcome.

I have not tested it with the SEF ADvance or SEF Patch.... but I do use OpenSEF and it doesn't seem to interfere.

Has anyone else had this issue with SEF Patch?

-barnett

[slimtreeshadow]

With JRE's SEF patch extended this doesn't work - at least it doesn't work for 1.010. I haven't tried w/ 1.011 yet.

It seems to interefere somehow w/ the custom title tags on menu items. It's just as eyezberg says.

[eyezberg]

sllim' thanks for confirming, (even tho' i use the free patch), I thought I was becoming stupid..

[slimtreeshadow]

You bet. Here's a related thread about custom title tags w/ the JoomlatWork patch - http://www.joomlatwork.com/forum/index.php?topic=41.0.