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TravelGirl wrote: Also, how to make front page showing only one (main) set of meta tags - at the moment it is showing tags from ALL articles that are listed on my front page.

Kampp wrote: The sections meta tags are set in the parameters where you managed the section!
The category meta tags are set in the parameters where you managed the category !

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: addmetatag() in /home/club509/www.superhaitian.com/docs/includes/joomla.php on line 499

vavroom wrote: Switching title/sitename:

In your files, open /includes/joomla.php

Around line 475 (may vary from version to version), find:

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

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

Make sure you back up your file first, in case it causes you problems, but it shouldn't.

Thanks to Jinx who pointed out the obvious to me, which I had been looking at and not seeing...

vavroom wrote: Glad that one worked for you. 

Now, try this one:

To stop individual items' meta info to be appended on the frontpage:

In /includes/joomla.php, around line 499, find function appendMetaTag

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	function appendMetaTag( $name, $content ) {
		$name = trim( htmlspecialchars( $name ) );
		$n = count( $this->_head['meta'] );
		for ($i = 0; $i < $n; $i++) {
			if ($this->_head['meta'][$i][0] == $name) {
				$content = trim( htmlspecialchars( $content ) );
				if ( $content ) {
					if ( !$this->_head['meta'][$i][1] ) {
						$this->_head['meta'][$i][1] = $content ;
					} else {
						$this->_head['meta'][$i][1] = $content .', '. $this->_head['meta'][$i][1];
					}
				}
				return;
			}
		}
		$this->addMetaTag( $name , $content );
	}

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	function appendMetaTag( $name, $content ) {
	    global $mosConfig_MetaDesc, $mosConfig_MetaKeys, $option;
	    $name = trim( htmlspecialchars( $name ) );
	    $n = count( $this->_head['meta'] );

// to correct description display (avoid coma after full stop).
	if (strtolower($name) == "description") $delimiter = " ";  else $delimiter = ", ";

	    for ($i = 0; $i < $n; $i++) {
	        if ($this->_head['meta'][$i][0] == $name) {
			    $content = trim( htmlspecialchars( $content ) );
				$this->_head['meta'][$i][1] .= (strlen($this->_head['meta'][$i][1]) > 0 && strlen($content) > 0 ? $delimiter : '') . $content; 

// we're changing default behaviour for home page
if ( $option == "com_frontpage" && strtolower($name) == "description") $this->_head['meta'][$i][1] = $mosConfig_MetaDesc ;
if ( $option == "com_frontpage" && strtolower($name) == "keywords") $this->_head['meta'][$i][1] = $mosConfig_MetaKeys ;
				return;
			}
		}
		
$this->addMetaTag( $name, $content );
}

BEWARE: This code appears to work on Joomla! 1.0.5.  I did not have the time to do extensive testing. 

I found it as a hack from the old mambo server forum. 
//Edit: forgot the url: http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread ... +frontpage

It works for the purpose of stopping the inclusion of content items' meta on the frontpage, but it *may* cause issues.  It will not stop appending the global description to the individual meta when viewing an individual item (though it appears to show the global *after* the individual item).

Lemme know how you get on

damo wrote: are these good for 1.0.8?:

Pesto wrote: The swapping of the title/sitename works in 1.08. That was the hack I needed. To me, that is far more important than the meta tags hack.

I will wait a few more months until 1.1 comes out for the team to clear up issues like that.

one thing I did combine with swap was a custom string for the com_frontpage, as follows, in com_content, around line 190

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// Dynamic Page Title
	$mainframe->SetPageTitle( 'Your Custom Homepage Text Here' );

mixing the two will make your home page much stronger from an SEO standpoint. This ONLY affects your home page TITLE tag.

HTH

Pesto

Pesto wrote: That was the hack I needed. To me, that is far more important than the meta tags hack.

caleb2001r wrote:

Pesto wrote: The swapping of the title/sitename works in 1.08. That was the hack I needed. To me, that is far more important than the meta tags hack.

I will wait a few more months until 1.1 comes out for the team to clear up issues like that.

one thing I did combine with swap was a custom string for the com_frontpage, as follows, in com_content, around line 190

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// Dynamic Page Title
	$mainframe->SetPageTitle( 'Your Custom Homepage Text Here' );

mixing the two will make your home page much stronger from an SEO standpoint. This ONLY affects your home page TITLE tag.

HTH

Pesto

Thanks, just what I was looking for.

Note:  Just to clarify, this done in componenets/com_content/content.php

// Dynamic Page Title
    $mainframe->SetPageTitle( 'Custom Title Here' );// Makes the page title more dynamic, uses the pagetitle parameter instead of the menu name;
	//if (  $params->get( 'header' )  == "") {
	//$mainframe->SetPageTitle( $menu->name );		
	//}else {
	//	$mainframe->SetPageTitle( $params->get( 'header' ) );
	//}