Dynamic Titles SEO just add one line!

THoTH · Beginner Joined: May 15, 2008 Posts: 13

What an episode, I've been looking for how to change the title bar in the browser for better SEO with Nukedgallery. I have worked out how to do it, but the credit should rest with dmolavi for the header extraction code, but he forgot to do anything with the $pagetitle variable ! Wink

Open your index.php and find this

Code: ›
foreach($javascript as $script) {
$scriptline = $script;
$scriptline = str_replace('"','\"',$scriptline);
$header .= 'echo "' . $scriptline. '\n";'."\n";
}

Then add afterwards this line

Code: › $header .='echo "<title>$pagetitle - $sitename Gallery</title>";';

Done !

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THoTH · Beginner Joined: May 15, 2008 Posts: 13

Just as a follow up to that last post, if you want the full breadcrumb trail in the title bar, create a folder in your themes templates directory called local, then copy theme.tpl into it. Then modify that theme.tpl for your chosen theme. Find the section with the <title> definition, usually looks like this..

Code: › {* If Gallery doesn't provide a header, we use the album/photo title (or filename) *}
<title>{$theme.item.title|default:$theme.item.pathComponent|markup:strip}</title>

And replace it with this

Code: › <title>{if isset($separator)} {$separator} {/if}
{foreach name=parent from=$theme.parents item=parent}
{if !$smarty.foreach.parent.last}
» {$parent.title|markup:strip|default:$parent.pathComponent}
{else}
» {$parent.title|markup:strip|default:$parent.pathComponent}
{/if}
{if isset($separator)} {$separator} {/if}
{/foreach}
{if ($theme.pageType == 'admin' || $theme.pageType == 'module')}
{else}
» {$theme.item.title|markup:strip|default:$theme.item.pathComponent}
{/if}</title>

Now you have a full path in your title bar Cool

dari

actually, don't modify theme.tpl. make a folder in your theme's directory called local, ie: matrix/local/ and then copy theme.tpl into there and modify that copy. this way, even if you update your g2 installation, your modification won't be lost, since g2 will always use files in the local directory first...
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THoTH · Beginner Joined: May 15, 2008 Posts: 13

Info amended, that'll teach me to post just before I go out. Laughing

dari

it's all good, thanks for the tip. i'm going to sticky this post Smile

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Stratego · Beginner Joined: Jul 22, 2007 Posts: 1

Is it possible to do the exact same thing (title breadcrumb) but omit the root album on every album except the root one ?

My root album's name is Home, but I don't want to have "Home - Album1 - Sub-Album1" on every page, I just want "Sitename - Album1 - Sub-Album1"

Thanks.