Page titles & breadcrumbs

[3dKiller]

Originally Posted by Simon

When you guys are talking about having "pligg" at the end of story titles etc, are you meaning that whatever the user wants (ie. their site name) is put there, rather than simply "pligg"?

Yes Simon, "Pligg" would be the default variable. Thanks for clarifying this with a question.

~3d

[NeverHome]

Simon, I *think* they are talking about swapping the order in which the title information is displayed. When viewing an article the thitle would be something like:

<TITLE>Fred's PliggStation / How Fred got his wonderful name</TITLE>

but 3DKiller is saying it would be better like this:

<TITLE>How Fred got his wonderful name / Fred's PliggStation</TITLE>

and that's better because the page information appears before the pligg name in the title, providing more meaningful search engine results. It puts the juicy, unique stuff ahead of the site title. It also makes it easier to scan a list of titles, including bookmarked pages list (otherwise, if you bookmark a bunch of pages from the same site you end up with bunch of unhelpful "Fred's PliggStation / Bla..." kind of bookmarkers.

Check my title here: http://www.travelscoop.co.nz/story/70/

I did it like this... in head.tpl find this:

<title>{#PLIGG_Visual_Name#} / {$title}</title>

... and replace with:

<title>{#PLIGG_Visual_Name#} / {$title}</title>
{if $title eq ""}
<title>{#PLIGG_Visual_Name#} / The place that Fred calls home</title>
{else}
<title>{$title} / {#PLIGG_Visual_Name#} / Fred's place</title>
{/if}

But if that is not what they were talking about, then there you have a nicely detailed description about how I did something totally irrelevant.