please note, i have found the files & made some very important changes. hopefully this will help everyone including the Kunena team with their seo efforts. this is such a wonderful product & i am happy to help in regards.
i am including the complete code to the views.php file. i made the code changes so that the Kunena team may look at them to see what i did to alleviate duplicate information. this is for the latest version Kunena 4.0.0
also please note, this is simply to help & should not be relied on as i will not be responsible for anything done on any site. please make sure you understand the code changes before implementing any of them. for convenience i have made comments in the code for my changes so you may see what they do.
IMPORTANT - if someone on the Kunena team could implement an item name that represents the first/last post for each topic's page that would be much better than what i had to do which was simply add the page numbers before each description to alleviate duplicate page descriptions. if we had a variable name that represents the first or last post of each page we could simply use that in the topic descriptions instead of the first post of the entire topic,
Current Example: $this->topic->first_post_message
Preferred Example: $this->topic->page->first_post_message
lastly, i have not figured out the lack of meta data for the menu items so please reply with your findings on the matter so that i may fix those pages also. thanks
Code:
protected function _prepareDocument($type)
{
if ($type == 'default')
{
$this->headerText = JText::_('COM_KUNENA_MENU_LATEST_DESC');
$this->title = JText::_('COM_KUNENA_ALL_DISCUSSIONS');
$page = intval($this->state->get('list.start') / $this->state->get('list.limit')) + 1;
$pages = intval(($this->total - 1) / $this->state->get('list.limit')) + 1;
$title = JText::sprintf($this->topic->subject) . " ({$page}/{$pages})";
$this->setTitle($title);
// TODO: use real keywords, too
//removed board title because it was creating multiple nested keywords its the same as the getParent in most cases
//$keywords = $this->escape("{$this->topic->subject}, {$this->category->name}, {$this->category->getParent()->name}, {$this->config->board_title}");
$keywords = $this->escape("{$this->topic->subject}, {$this->category->name}, {$this->category->getParent()->name}");
$this->setKeywords($keywords);
// Create Meta Description form the content of the first message
// better for search results display but NOT for search ranking!
//this causes multiple pages to have duplicate descriptions if there are more than 1 page for this topic
//$description = KunenaHtmlParser::stripBBCode($this->topic->first_post_message, 182);
//added page number before the description otherwise it may be cut off by the amount of characters allowed in the description, EX:(1/2) description......
$description = KunenaHtmlParser::stripBBCode("({$page}/{$pages})". " ". $this->topic->first_post_message);
$description = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $description); // remove newlines
$description = trim($description); // Remove trailing spaces and beginning
if ($page)
{
$description .= " ({$page}/{$pages})"; //avoid the "duplicate meta description" error in google webmaster tools
}
$this->setDescription($description);
}
elseif ($type == 'create')
{
$this->title = JText::_('COM_KUNENA_POST_NEW_TOPIC');
$this->setTitle($this->title);
// TODO: set keywords and description
$keywords = $this->escape("new topic, forum topic, new post, create, {$this->category->getParent()->name}");
//keywords needed activating
$this->setKeywords($keywords);
//added description for create pages, note this will be duplicate for each new page but not a big deal as this is a canonical page
$description = KunenaHtmlParser::stripBBCode("New Topic - Input your subject and message in the corresponding fields and submit or preview your content");
$description = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $description); // remove newlines
$description = trim($description); // Remove trailing spaces and beginning
if ($page)
{
$description .= " ({$page}/{$pages})"; //avoid the "duplicate meta description" error in google webmaster tools
}
$this->setDescription($description);
}
elseif ($type == 'reply')
{
$this->title = JText::_('COM_KUNENA_POST_REPLY_TOPIC') . ' ' . $this->topic->subject;
$this->setTitle($this->title);
// TODO: set keywords and description
//added keywords for reply pages so they are not using the joomla global config keywords
$keywords = $this->escape("{$this->topic->subject}, {$this->category->name}, {$this->category->getParent()->name}");
$this->setKeywords($keywords);
//added page number before the description otherwise it may be cut off by the amount of characters allowed in the description, EX:(1/2) description......
$description = KunenaHtmlParser::stripBBCode("{$this->topic->subject}. {$this->topic->last_post_message}");
$description = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $description); // remove newlines
$description = trim($description); // Remove trailing spaces and beginning
if ($page)
{
$description .= " ({$page}/{$pages})"; //avoid the "duplicate meta description" error in google webmaster tools
}
$this->setDescription($description);
}
elseif ($type == 'edit')
{
$this->title = JText::_('COM_KUNENA_POST_EDIT') . ' ' . $this->topic->subject;
$this->setTitle($this->title);
// TODO: set keywords and description
//added keywords for edit pages so they are not using the joomla global config keywords
$keywords = $this->escape("{$this->topic->subject}, {$this->category->name}, {$this->category->getParent()->name}");
$this->setKeywords($keywords);
//added page number before the description otherwise it may be cut off by the amount of characters allowed in the description, EX:(1/2) description......
$description = KunenaHtmlParser::stripBBCode("{$this->topic->subject}. {$this->topic->last_post_message}");
$description = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $description); // remove newlines
$description = trim($description); // Remove trailing spaces and beginning
if ($page)
{
$description .= " ({$page}/{$pages})"; //avoid the "duplicate meta description" error in google webmaster tools
}
$this->setDescription($description);
}
}
