Resolved Can the meta title tag be changed?

[daveb]

oh and on the same track the meta title tag is
testshop city | mysite Forum

How could I make it testshop reviews | mysite Forum or Reviews of testshop | mysite Forum ?

 

[daveb]

sussed this out by editing a few templates, but I keep getting (1) in the title before what I want, is that something pre included somewhere else ?

 

[Bob]

You MIGHT be able to achieve the result you want to by editing the item view template and passing in custom data via the title argument (altho, that might only apply to the OG title).

Template: xa_sc_item_view

Find:

<xf:macro template="metadata_macros" name="metadata"
    arg-description="{$descSnippet}"
    arg-type="article"
    arg-shareUrl="{{ link('canonical:showcase', $item) }}"
    arg-canonicalUrl="{{ link('canonical:showcase', $item) }}"
    arg-imageUrl="{{ $item.CoverImage ? link('canonical:showcase/cover-image', $item) : ($item.Category.content_image ? base_url('styles/default/xenaddons/showcase/category_images/' . {$item.Category.content_image}, true) : '') }}"
    arg-twitterCard="summary_large_image" />

The metadata macro in the metadata_macros accepts the following arguments:

<xf:macro name="metadata"
    arg-siteName=""
    arg-title=""
    arg-description=""
    arg-type=""
    arg-shareUrl=""
    arg-canonicalUrl=""
    arg-imageUrl=""
    arg-twitterCard="summary">

As you can see, there is an argument for passing in a TITLE. You simple edit the call to the macro and include passing in a custom title instead of letting XenForo decide the title (which is based on Item Title and Site Name).

Example, here I've modified the xc_sc_item_view template to pass in a custom title to the metadata template.

<xf:macro template="metadata_macros" name="metadata"
    arg-title="{{ {$item.title} . ' | ' . {$item.Category.title} . ' | some custom text here' }}"
    arg-description="{$descSnippet}"
    arg-type="article"
    arg-shareUrl="{{ link('canonical:showcase', $item) }}"
    arg-canonicalUrl="{{ link('canonical:showcase', $item) }}"
    arg-imageUrl="{{ $item.CoverImage ? link('canonical:showcase/cover-image', $item) : ($item.Category.content_image ? base_url('styles/default/xenaddons/showcase/category_images/' . {$item.Category.content_image}, true) : '') }}"
    arg-twitterCard="summary_large_image" />

See if that does the trick for you