News v3.5 - Show title in page title

[flip]

Hello,

I'm using the News v3.5 module. The page title is always the same for all posts which is not ideal for SEO.

How can I show the title in the page title and the short intro in the meta description?

Thanks,

Philip

[Ruud]

Have a look here..
It is your solution.

[flip]

Hi Ruud,

It partly solves my issue. I'm using a customized page title in the template file:
<?php page_title(' // ', '[PAGE_TITLE][SPACER][WEBSITE_TITLE]'); ?>

I think that I can't use that any more but would need to change the include.php of Simple PageHead - I'm not a developer though.

Philip

[Ruud]

In the include.php - change line 117

Code:

if (strlen($the_title) < 15) {$the_title = WEBSITE_TITLE. " - " .$the_title; }

into

Code: (untested)

$the_title .= " - ".WEBSITE_TITLE

(exactly like this!)

That should do it.

[flip]

When I replace the full line, then all page are blank. Probably it should be as follows:

if (strlen($the_title) < 15) {$the_title = $the_title. " // " .WEBSITE_TITLE; }

When I do so, then only the page title is shown. The website title and spacer don't show up. Also in the original version the spacer and website title aren't displayed.

[Ruud]

my mistake:

Code:

$the_title .= " - ".WEBSITE_TITLE;

forgot the last charachter " ; ". That will generate an error causing the blank page.

Your solution starts with a test, it will only work on page-titles of less than 15 characters.
So on longer page titles you will not see the spacer and the website name.

[flip]

Many thanks! That works excellent ...

[MarkPrima]

I thought I would ask my question here rather than a new thread.

I am doing some mods on the News page and was wondering how to modify the News module.

This is my page http://cms.ssmarts.org/pages/news.php

I want to separate the news items with a <hr> tag but can't seem to find the right location - and in what file? I have experimented with a few files - I would say it is in the veiw.php file?

Thanks

[sky writer]

If I am understanding your need properly, you can add the <hr> in the admin News "Settings" tab.  Just click your News Page, then the "Settings" button.  Then make the change in the "Post Loop:" window.

Something like:
...
<td class="post_short">
[SHORT]
<hr>
</td>
</tr>
...

Hope this helps.

I thought I would ask my question here rather than a new thread.

I am doing some mods on the News page and was wondering how to modify the News module.

This is my page http://cms.ssmarts.org/pages/news.php

I want to separate the news items with a <hr> tag but can't seem to find the right location - and in what file? I have experimented with a few files - I would say it is in the veiw.php file?

Thanks

[MarkPrima]

Precisely!!
Thanks - that was easier than I thought.
Cheers!