Category title tag

[mikez006]

#1 ) Currently my title tags on category pages are this.

[Website name] - Rankings - [category name]
instead I want to change it to:
[category name] - [category description]

#2) On the homepage the title is
[Website name] - Rankings - All Sites
instead I want to change it to:
[Website name]

How can I do this?

Also when I edit a phrase in "Manage Language", in this case "All Sites" or "Rankings" the titles never change on the site? Is this info cached? How do I get it to update?

 

[Basti]

This seems to work, had to take a different approach than usually since you want to get rid of the main title on one page, but seems to work out nicely

1) from wrapper.html title tag delete everything other that {$header}
2) upload attached plugin

I tried it out and it seems everywhere else the main title gets nicely reattached with this. If it seems wrong anywhere let me know

 

[mikez006]

perfect, thank you!

 

[mikez006]

Spoke too soon.

The category titles are not displaying the correct category names.

It's in this format
[category name] - [category description]

However the [category name] is not correct. About 1/2 of the categories are using "World of Warcraft" the other half are using "League of Legends"

 

[top50servers]

Not really helping but, putting the category description in the title isn't a great idea for SEO. The title should be short and to the point.

 

[cajkan]

<title>{$list_name} - {$meta_description} - {$meta_keywords}{</title>

Top50Servers is right, even if your title contains lots of words only first 65-70 will be displayed, other text is truncated.

 

[Basti]

Works on every single category i tested on. So it must be something on your end. Looks like you have some other plugin which interfere with this one.
Disable all one by one and see if the problems persists

 

[mikez006]

My descriptions are very short, 5-8 words, so using it in the title works for me.

I tried disabling all plugins and that didn't fix it. Its not the theme either, I made the same edit to the default skin and the same thing happens.

This is what I have for the title tag in the wrapper.html file

<title>{$header}</title>

Can you confirm the file you attached is the correct one? I saw in another thread about titles an attached file that had the same name, but did something different. Maybe you attached the wrong one.

 

[legendz]

The files Basti attached is working fine. I just installed that file today at www.top100-mmorpg.com.

 

[mikez006]

Actually it's not working on your site either.

Cabal Online category shows "Luna Online" in the title tag. None of your categories are displaying the correct game.

 

[Basti]

Yea several version of this plugin are flying around on the forum, as everyone want different and sometimes complicated things -.-

This is very odd, could you pls try the following
in the plugin, the file main_skin.php

the line

    $TMPL['header'] = "{$TMPL['category']} - {$TMPL['cat_desc']}";

Can you pls change the {$TMPL['category']} to {$TMPL['cat_exist']}

 

[mikez006]

that fixed it thanks again

 

[Basti]

Cool, good to hear

 

[Mark]

It would be great if someone could compile all the info/plugins about this and put together a tutorial on editing title tag structure.

I will add it to my list, but probably wont get to it for some time.

 

[Basti]

I might can do it on the weekend. This plugin is as of now the easiest method and holds the ability to edit different structures amongst all source files without using the hook in each and every file.

Honestly i think we should include this into the core. And keep just {$header} in wrapper.html
Makes it a bit easier for users to update. But time will show

 

[cajkan]

Yes, i agree with Basti.
Lots of people use different structure of the category title, so allowing people to customize that would be +1 for VL.