Merged Change browser window title

In all the topics, it also adds some stuff the browser title, that's not so good for SEO. The forum's main page title:: (note there is actually two : , and also the word "topic:" is also all added too, before the topic's real title. All of this is before the actual title of each topic.

How do I remove all this extra stuff from the title used in browsers, and just use the subject as the title only (like how it works in pervious Kunena versions).

Thanks for sharing this guys, it was a great help with fixing my site titles.. .

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 !