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#1 2013-10-31 11:11:06

gaekwad
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[solved] <title> separators on textpattern.com

Have the <title> separators on textpattern.com been removed or broken?

This is the <title> on the Textpattern system requirements page, which includes some zero-width spaces, I think:

<title>System&nbsp;requirements ­ About ­ Textpattern CMS</title>

Could that perhaps include some punctuation, like this:

<title>System requirements | About | Textpattern CMS</title>

..or maybe this:

<title>System requirements – About – Textpattern CMS</title>

It’d make it look much, much nicer in search engine results pages and <title> tags are very important to search engine optimisation.

Thank you in advance.

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#2 2013-10-31 12:08:09

Gocom
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Re: [solved] <title> separators on textpattern.com

Someone used &shy; as separator without reading specs; it’s not an entity for dash. &shy; is soft hyphen and only shows up if the text actually breaks to second line. Otherwise it’s hidden and is rendered as zero-width space. I’ve now changed the separator to &ndash;.

Last edited by Gocom (2013-10-31 12:13:20)

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#3 2013-10-31 12:13:08

gaekwad
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Re: [solved] <title> separators on textpattern.com

Great – thanks, Jukka.

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#4 2013-10-31 12:14:42

Gocom
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Re: [solved] <title> separators on textpattern.com

I put that shy to my list of major fuck ups within Team Textpattern members, myself included.

Last edited by Gocom (2013-10-31 12:15:20)

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#5 2013-10-31 12:16:54

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Re: [solved] <title> separators on textpattern.com

We still you love, man.

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#6 2013-12-16 16:51:17

gaekwad
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Re: [solved] <title> separators on textpattern.com

Bumping this thread: Textgarden would benefit from the separator fix:

<title>Hive &shy; Administration Themes &shy; Textgarden.org</title>

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#7 2013-12-16 17:26:34

Gocom
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Re: [solved] <title> separators on textpattern.com

TextGarden a third-party community site maintained by Stuart. You may need to contact him directly if he isn’t actively reading this forum.

(Textpattern doesn’t have front-end themes system, so we can’t endorse them ourselves with clean conscience as a official [non-]feature).

Last edited by Gocom (2013-12-16 17:28:09)

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#8 2013-12-16 17:29:04

gaekwad
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Re: [solved] <title> separators on textpattern.com

Thanks, Jukka – I’ll get in touch with Stuart.

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