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Changing The HTML Title

That HTML Page Title is what typically shows up in your browser's window within a "Tab" or "Title Bar".

The software offers several options for editing the Page Title within your site. It just depends upon how in depth you want to get with it. Within the "title module" you are able to set page specific titles for all pages in the system. Then, within the software's category admin menu, you can even set category specific titles for each category in the system. Furthermore, the title on each listing details page even gets populated with the title of the listing itself. With all the individual controls for page title you should have little if any "title duplicates" across your site.

For SEO purposes it is important to set an html title that accurately reflects the content within that page. It is also important that the title be unique, though more for SEO purposes that informational. The html title module has been designed to allow for more focused html titles that are easily manageable within the Geo admin tool. We'll describe here how to manage this feature in the admin tool.

Setting Titles For Individual Pages

To set the title for individual pages within the system look to the following admin tool:

PAGE MODULES > MISC > TITLE MODULE

The above opens up the following admin tool:

Within that screenshot you'll see:

  1. the admin note allows you to save a note about the module if you have any. It could be a note about how you are using it or something you need to do. This note does not appear anywhere else.
  2. the template tag is the placement tag you would use to place this module's functionality within the design where you want it to appear. This tag is placed within the default templates where the html title will appear. If you create your own template design and wish to use this feature you would place this module tag to place this modules output
  3. this is the title for non-listing pages that do not have their own title set for them within this modules admin tool.
  4. This is the default front page title value. If this module appears within the page template used on the front page this is the value it will place.
  5. You can choose to display the current language browsed at the end of the title if this checkbox is checked. The "language value shown" will be that shown for each language within the languages admin tool and coincidentally those same language value option appear in the language specific text management just below
  6. You will see a choice here for each language you currently have within your system. You setup those languages in the language management tool. This module has a specific set of text for each language available in the system. You can control the values of this module on a page by page, category by category and language by language basis. You would edit the text options on a page by page basis within the pages linked to here.

Once you click one of the language links available in the above admin tool page you'll be taken to a page that looks like this:

Within that screenshot you'll see:

  1. the current language for this module you are editing
  2. the current module whose text you are editing
  3. this page should contain all text available for use within the title module for the current language edited. This value is the title of the text or in the instance of this module what page it will appear in where this title module is placed. This should label the texts use that displays to it's right
  4. this is the current text for the current language. What you see here appears in the client side.
  5. click this button to edit the corresponding text to the left.

As you can see in some of the text above there will be other content placed with reference to the text you edit here. For many "listing specific" pages you'll see the listings title included. For other "user specific" pages you'll see that users username within the title on the client side.

Setting Category Specific Page Titles

Each category has it's own title and also it's own controls for what will appear in the title module when browsing that category. To set those category specific values look to make changes in the category admin tool you'll find here:

CATEGORIES > CATEGORIES > [EDIT] (next to a specific category)

This screenshot shows what to do:

Once you click the "edit" button next to the category you wish to affect you'll see a page like so:

Within that screenshot you should see the place to edit the title that will appear in the title module for this category. If no value is set for a specific category that category's name will be used in the title.

Display Region Selection in Title Module

If you have the geographic navigation addon enabled you can have the software automatically place the current region browsed within the title module if you like. You only need to check the following checkbox:

ADDONS > GEOGRAPHIC NAVIGATION > SETTINGS > Show listing's region in Title Module

Of course both the geographic navigation addon needs to be enabled and the title module in use for this to happen.

Features of the Title Module Pre v7.6.0

Within the default design the title you see in the title bar of your browser is controlled by the title module. You can change the site wide default title the title module displays go here in the admin tool:

PAGE MODULES > MISC > TITLE MODULE

While browsing categories that module will display that categories title. While browsing a specific listing that listings title will appear in the title. There are configurations to set the title for the "front page" and "all other pages".

You can easily remove this module from use and set your own site wide titles by replacing the title module tag in the head.tpl template with a title of your own.

Options for <title> Tag Management

  1. Use the default title module. If you decide to do this you only need to make sure the {module tag='module_title'} module tag between the <title> and </title> tags of your design.
  2. For category browsing pages you can set the <title> tag with other html head elements within the category specific meta feature explained here
  3. You can manage the title tag along with other meta in none category browsing and listing details pages of the system using the site page meta tag management features explained here
  4. Manage region specific meta and titles when using the geographic navigation as explained in this support wiki page
startup_tutorial_and_checklist/design_configuration/specific_html_elements/html_title_management.txt · Last modified: 2016/04/02 22:44 by rdowen2016