Custom Title - Support

[ePirat]

Hello,
Due to a request I've created a custom title plugin.
This plugin allows you to change the default title tag, you can use the following variables: %sitename% Name of the website (as defined in GetSimple setup) %pagetitle% Title of the current page (as defined in the editor - the one display in the page body) %parenttitle% Title of the parent's page %menutitle% Title of the current page's menu item (if it has one)
You can also define custom title tags for a specific page (overriding the site default) in the editor options -> Custom title tag (empty for default)

Usage:
Go to the Plugins page, then click on the Custom Title Settings Link. Here you can set a sitewide title (default) which is used when no specific title is set for a page.
To define a title tag for a specific page, go to the Page overview, then open the More Options menu and change the Custom title tag (empty for default).

You can use the following variables:
%sitename% Name of the website (as defined in GetSimple setup)
%pagetitle% Title of the current page (as defined in the editor - the one display in the page body)
%parenttitle% Title of the parent's page
%menutitle% Title of the current page's menu item (if it has one)

Changelog:

Version 1.5

• Fix typo in <label> tag (thanks Carlos for reporting that)
  

Version 1.4

• Rewrote nearly the entire plugin
  
• Fixed various issues with escaping and quotes
  
• Fixed issues with modifications of the $_POST variable
  

Version 1.3

• Fixed bud which allowed html code in title tag, which could cause unexpected behavior
  
• Fixed issue which escaped quotes with a lot of backslashes on systems where magic_quotes are enabled
  
• Added support for special characters
  

Version 1.2

• Fixed styling issue with the custom title input form in page settings
  
• Fixed issue in the options page of the plugin
  

Version 1.1

• Fixed that you couldn't set custom title for any page
  

Version 1.0

• First Version
  

Detailed installation instructions you can find on the plugin page:
Plugin Link – Download

[Connie]

this looks very promising!

the link: http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/custom-title/240/

I will certainly use it!

[Johonwayni]

Really nice! thank you

[Carlos]

Essential plugin for those concerned about SEO.
Useful even if you e.g. only want to customize (and easily change) your index page's title tag.

Thanks for making it real ;-)

[ccagle8]

great idea for a plugin... I've been using the i18n custom fields plugin for this - but this is more featured and geared towards the problem of SEO. Great work on it!

[Carlos]

@ccagle8

Heh, when I suggested someone created this plugin you said you'd use it if it existed... };-)

[ccagle8]

haha, I didn't even remember that post... but it still holds true!

[dirtydancing]

How do I add a title change to "News Manager" - every post has a title as the default home page.

[Carlos]

@dirtydancing

This does not belong to this thread's topic, but... have a look at this post in News Manager's support thread:
http://get-simple.info/forum/post/15133/#p15133

[Divita]

Thank you ePirat! Exactly what I needed when I realised that I could not easily write my own <title> tag different to navigation title.

I vote for this being included in the base code. It's essential, not optional IMHO.

[totbar]

Does this plug in have anyway of rendering the html? I tried to put a link in the title and it printed out the "a" element tag instead of the link.

If you can tell me where in the source to look, I will try and make the change and share it.

[Connie]

Does this plug in have anyway of rendering the html? I tried to put a link in the title and it printed out the "a" element tag instead of the link.

If you can tell me where in the source to look, I will try and make the change and share it.

There is no sense in using HTML in a web page title at all. A title is something which is shown in the titlebar of the browser, a link there is absolutely nonsense ;=)

why would you do this? To break the visitor's browser session?;=)

Cheers, Connie

[totbar]

Oh, I should have mentioned: In my template files, I replaced <h1><?php get_page_title(); ?></h1> with <h1><?php echo(get_custom_title_tag()); ?></h1>. I left the title tag in the site header alone.

I did that so I could keep the pages named correctly in the admin pages tab and still use a customized page title on individual pages. When I read the plugin description initially, I thought it was supposed to be for the use I gave it. Then I noticed the problem rendering the HTML and read a little bit more. That's when I discovered it was intended for the title tag, and not so much page titles.

[Connie]

yes, it might be confusing sometimes

I am glad it works for you now, and you can continue to dive into GetSimple!

Cheers, Connie

[ePirat]

There are some use cases where you might want html in the title tag, e.g. to use &middot; and stuff like this…
If you really want to, you can use:

Code:

<?php echo(htmlspecialchars_decode(get_custom_title_tag())); ?>

(but I do not recommend using it, unless you know what you're doing…

[lr]

I am using gs blog ( a slightly older version)
Default meta titles don't work so I was hoping this would help but it doesn't work on the blog pages.
OS there any quick way to add this to gs blog ?
thanks for any guidance

[shovenose]

I am using gs blog ( a slightly older version)
Default meta titles don't work so I was hoping this would help but it doesn't work on the blog pages.
OS there any quick way to add this to gs blog ?
thanks for any guidance

Is there any particular reason you are still running an old version? We always recommend updating GS and plugins, to the latest stable release version.

[ePirat]

Ok it seems there are issues with this plugin and the latest GS Version, I'll check this and update the plugin. Sorry for any inconvenience.

[shawn_a]

Do you know what the issue is?

[Divita]

Hi. Any progress with this please? Or does anyone have suggestions what to hack to get it working? Thanks.

[Divita]

I guess this plugin is abandoned. Can anyone suggest an alternative for setting custom titles?

[Timbow]

The plugin continues to work for me in GS3.2

If you want an alternative system for custom html titles you can use a component to write whatever you want in the title tags of your template. if you want different titles for different pages you can follow these instructions from Carlos which I put in the wiki for different components in different pages.

http://get-simple.info/wiki/components-d...rent_pages

I have tried it and it works. It isn't hard to do and it can't fail.

[yojoe]

I guess this plugin is abandoned. Can anyone suggest an alternative for setting custom titles?

One of available customfields plugin will solve your problem.
Just create a new custom text field, call its content inside template's <title> tag, and voilla.

[ePirat]

I've looke into it and couldn't find any issue… If you are still experiencing problems I need futher details to reproduce the problem.
Sorry for the late reply, for some reason I did not received E-Mail notifications for this topic anymore…

[TeeJay]

Works like a charm, exactly the function that I wanted. The only trouble for me is that it doesn't use a return function so I have to use echo, but that's not a big deal thank you for this plugin.

Edit:// One more thing you could make better. Put one more field into the backend plugin's settings which would be your custom string for the "Custom page title:" text. I had to hardcode my translated string into the plugin's file. Not a big issue, just a suggestion what you could make even better