Title Length

[donald22]

Hi, I have just noticed that when listing a new site the title needs to be a minimum of 25 characters and I can't find where to shorten it?

 

[Basti]

Mininmum? shorten?
You mean maximum and shorten i suppose?

in that case you can add to almost every template tag a length parameter to limit the text displayed, like
{$title, length=120}
which displays max. 120 chars

 

[cajkan]

Hello Donald22,

As Basti said you can use lenght tag, but you dont need to worry about this.
Into search results if title is already too big Google automaticly truncates the text.

So even if user title is " BEST " = 4 characters, into details page will be {$title} - {$list_name}
Hope this helps

 

[donald22]

Here is a screenshot of the error I get when test posting with title "forums forum

 

[cajkan]

Sorry about my comment, i tough you asking for SEO Titles

 

[Mark]

I am away at the moment on a mobile device and cannot confirm, but check the join form template and you should see the limits.

Also looks like I will need to patch the error message style for 1.1

 

[donald22]

This is the only code in the join_form template I could see that's relevant to title, what bit do I change?

<div class="{$error_style_title}">
<label for="join_title">{$lng->g_title}</label>
<input type="text" name="title" value="{$title}" id="join_title" class="in1"/>
{$error_title}
</div>

 

[Mark]

None of that, it would be in the JavaScript near the top if it is indeed in that template.

 

[donald22]

Snip...

 

[Basti]

Nope the javascript error doesnt have such message. The error message is coming from our php validation functions.
Do you have custom plugins? Looks like a plugin is applied to check for title length

 

[donald22]

Here is a list of my plug ins

Send Message
1.1 Disable
Affiliate Tracker
1.2 Disable
Newest Members
1.2 Disable
Vote Manager
1.1 Disable
Custom Validation
1.0 Disable
Clean URL's
1.1 Disable Apache mod_rewrite
Google+
1.0 Disable

 

[donald22]

...and

Elegant Join
1.0 Disable
Ads
1.0 Disable Visiolist 0.5 or newer

Overall Stats
1.0 Disable
Branding Free
Disable
Vote Message
1.1 Disable
Facebook
1.1 Disable
ScreenShots
1.0 Disable

 

[Mark]

What is custom validation? Try disabling that one

 

[donald22]

That seems to have done the trick, I must have got it from the plug in section as thats where I got them all.

 

[Basti]

Looks like i gave you that plugin, as i have the same on my pc ( but not here on the forum anywhere ). So it was a request by you

 

[donald22]

It seems to go to "elegant join" if you click on it.

 

[Mark]

that is definitely not a plugin from our plugin section must have been something you requested and Basti helped you with.