Merged Change browser window title

Hello everyone, I just thought I would share my fixes, to improve the titles and to make them more search engine friendly (for SEO). These were based on the fixes mentioned above, with a few extra customizations. This improves the titles for both the Main forum page and the individual topics imho.


How to improve the Forum Homepage:

The Category Index is my main forum page, so I thought it was best to just use the Main Forum title only for this page (remove the Category Index language).

Go to: components/com_kunena/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_kunena.views.ini
And just delete the language like this:

COM_KUNENA_VIEW_CATEGORIES_DEFAULT=""

*Note: you still need to remove the “::” with step below!


2. Get rid of the double : : (just delete it entirely):
Go to: administrator/components/com_kunena/libraries/view.php

This is the fix previously mentioned above (to also fix the order and the double :, however instead of a "-", it's left blank as it's not needed for the main Forum home page now (as the Category Index language was deleted, no need for the : or - now):

Change from:
$title = KunenaFactory::getConfig()->board_title .' :: '. $title;

Change to:
$title = $title .' '. KunenaFactory::getConfig()->board_title;

This also fixes the order of the topic titles too (shows the topic's subject title first).

However you still want to add a "-" back to the topic titles only and also delete the word "topic" too: It's easy to add a hyphen back to topic titles only.. Just do this:

Go to: components/com_kunena/views/topic/view.html.php

Find this code:

$title = JText::sprintf('COM_KUNENA_VIEW_TOPICS_DEFAULT', $this->topic->subject) . " ({$page}/{$pages})";

Change it to:

$title = JText::sprintf($this->topic->subject) . " ({$page}/{$pages}) -";


This also removes the "topic:" language from topic titles completely, and the subject title is first now, and adds a "-" to seperate it from the main forum title at the end of the title.

For example, if your forum is "Widgets Forum" the Meta Title is just this now:

Widgets Forum


The individual Topic Titles are in this format now:

How to find Blue Widgets at a discount - Widgets Forum



This should be more search engine friendly.. .

Hi all

I managed to get rid of the :: but I still see "Category Index".

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Hi, did you see my last messge before yours. I just left this field blank in the language file. I had some other suggestions as well you may want to use to improve the topic titles.

Hi everyone,

This question is actually very good as I saw lot of people wondering how to do it. I just updated my kunena version to the latest one one month ago, and was not expecting this change.

I think I've lost around 500 visitors because of this change last week when Google took it into account.

I know that it is the way Kunena works, and this is a wonderful forum software, but is there any way you can just put the title of the subject as the main and only title, and not all these things that come before ?

Thanks for your help !

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This topic explains how to change the browser window title.

Jean-Baptiste wrote: I think I've lost around 500 visitors because of this change last week when Google took it into account.

Do you know this for a fact? There are many reasons why people do not visit websites. This forum (at www.kunena.org ), for example, receives a lot of visitors.

The forum is listed well at Google and we have not changed anything in the software to remove the "::" from the window title.

Well, we can never know for sure, but the website is still at the same position on Google for all the articles, except for the topics of the forum that just lost 2 to 5 places on their request after Google took into account the Title change.

Maybe not enough to be a 100% sure that it comes from this change, but quite an important possibility

It may be important to you (and I sympathise with you for your concerns) but, as far as what is listed on Google about www.kunena.org is concerned, this is not an issue for the Kunena site administration team.