[howto] Nice, Custom Page Titles

draganbabic · 2012-01-29 14:55:47

I’ve been struggling with these for a while, and always ended up struggling through this for each of the websites I built. Finally I’ve come up with code that will satisfy my most broad needs, and that I can trim if I need something simple.

The following code will produce nice page titles for the following cases:

when on the home page,
when on the section lander,
when on the category lander within a section (for articles that are within categories, and sections),
when the individual article page.

The code can be found in this GitHub gist.

I hope this will help someone.

PS

I’m linking to a gist because if someone suggests improvements or I change something I can just change the gist, instead of changing code in several places.

jakob · 2012-01-29 15:39:39

Hi Dragan, nice snippet and nice idea of using a gist.

In your txp:if_individual_article section, your context is very clear so you should be able to use the standard txp:article tag instead of txp:article_custom id='<txp:article_id />'. As a sidenote, there’s no need for limit="1" with txp:article_custom if you are explicitly telling it show one article id with id="123".

In the back of my mind, I vaguely remember that txp:if_individual_article might actually be enough context for the txp:title and txp:category2 tags so you may also be able to do without txp:article too, but I couldn’t find that documented just now so pls test that first before changing your code.

draganbabic · 2012-01-29 16:27:38

Hi Jakob, thanks for the reply!

I was getting strange results when I was using simply <article_custom section='<txp:section />'>, as TXP always output the title of the last article that’s posted in the section currently viewed. The <txp:article_custom id='<txp:article_id />'> makes sure I always get the proper article title.

I will update the gist with your proposed solution for removal of the limit="1" attribute.

jakob · 2012-01-29 18:56:56

EDIT: you have a slight mixup in your corrections. You have txp:article with id (line 41) as the opening tag and txp:article_custom (line 59) as the closing tag. txp:article is context-sensitive, meaning that it knows which article it should show in if_individual_article view. Consequently it doesn’t need (or have) an id attribute.

What I meant was to use txp:article (without the _custom) so the if_individual_article part of the code would read:

<txp:if_individual_article>

      <txp:hide>this is an individual article</txp:hide>

      <txp:article>

        <txp:title />

        <txp:hide>check to see if the article is in a category</txp:hide>

        <txp:if_article_category>

          <txp:hide>it is, display category2 title (for you this may be category1)</txp:hide>

          — <txp:category2 title="1" />

        </txp:if_article_category>

        <txp:hide>display article's section title</txp:hide>

        — <txp:section title="1" />

      </txp:article>

 </txp:if_individual_article>

And you may find that it works entirely without txp:article or txp:article_custom:

<txp:if_individual_article>

        <txp:title />
        <txp:if_article_category>
          — <txp:category2 title="1" />
        </txp:if_article_category>
          — <txp:section title="1" />

 </txp:if_individual_article>

Last edited by jakob (2012-01-29 19:03:36)

draganbabic · 2012-01-29 19:36:30

Thanks again Jakob, I didn’t know that if you are in an individual article context, you don’t need any of the txp:article tags (if you need to display information related to the article currently being displayed of course).

I have updated the gist again.

jakob · 2012-01-29 21:23:34

I didn’t know that if you are in an individual article context, you don’t need any of the txp:article tags

I think that is the case If my memory serves me correctly, but my memory is, well …

I’d test it to be sure.

draganbabic · 2012-01-29 21:39:15

It works like a charm, tested!

makss · 2012-02-08 13:09:55

Another option – set the title, keywords, description when the output content.

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[howto] Nice, Custom Page Titles

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