Change the separator in the browser page titles Topic is solved

[Graemezee]

Currently the Site Name in Page Titles is hyphen
ie Title - Site Name is there a way to change the - to a | Title | Site Name. The seo's company I am working with have requested this and the only way i can see to do this is to off this feature and manually add the titles.

I have had this request from several SEO companies on different site so this would be very useful
would this be possible via language overrides ?

Appreciate any help

[pe7er]

So you want to change the hyphen "-" in the Browser Page Title <title></title> to a pipe "|" symbol?

You can change the HTML output of Joomla using a plugin.

In this case you might look into a plugin called: ReReplacer
https://extensions.joomla.org/extension ... ereplacer/

[Graemezee]

Hi, Thanks, For you input, I have been reading the documentation For ReReplacer Looks like its the tool for the job But i would not know where to start. I have searched the language files looking for a place holder for the hyphen there are quite few, but none seem to be related to the page titles. I would assume its part of the code in the relevant php file which I have no idea about. I would be happy to buy the plugin but would need to know how to configure the change.

[AMurray]

ReReplacer doesn't touch the database or PHP files - it doesn't work that way and you don't need to go digging into the code. The documentation explains it fairly simply.

I think the key point is you have to tell it where you want to search within the HTML document:

Examples:

Go to "Search Areas" tab and select "Head" option from the "Enable in Area" drop-down list.

Back in the "Details" tab, type in the search string to look for (the bit you want to replace)
e.g. " Mary's Puppy Training - Dalmatians"

Type in the string of text you want to replace the above with e.g. "Mary's Puppy Training | Dalmatians"

OR you could replace specific portions of the above, such as only replacing the bit after the hyphen like replace " - Dalmatians " with "| Dalmatians".

You could also search and replace the entire line of HTML (the <title> tag line) but in this instance wouldn't be necessary.

Refresh the front-end of your site (F5/Ctrl+F5) and see the browser title has changed from the hyphen to the pipe symbol.

You don't need the Pro version for this, ReReplacer is free from the JED.

[Graemezee]

Hi, Thanks to both of you, so simple. Typically I started from point of complexity and totally missed the simple and the obvious. Many thanks again.

[AMurray]

Glad the solution worked.

[jameslarson]

The replacements are rendered on-the-fly with ReReplacer, keeping the actual text or HTML untouched. DB Replacer can be used either if you like or need to completely replace anything in your website's database.

[pe7er]

An easier method (thanks Pablo Arias, for pointing me to this solution!) is described here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/24039174/2027591

Create a language override for JPAGETITLE constant. Change
%1$s - %2$s
to
%1$s | %2$s