Is it possible with K2 to add a custom page title for SEO purposes?

Anyone? In case I wasn't clear, what I want is the ability to name my articles/posts one thing, but create an alternate "page title" that is SEO friendly. I've done this in the past with plugins that work with the core joomla articles, but I haven't found anything for K2. Please let me know if this exists. Thanks.

How can i add the name of the category to the page title ?

There is a small solution possible. Try the 'Website Name' or another 'append-a-site-title' extension, so that you can append the title of your site to the existing page title.

It works with K2, too:
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/seo-a-metadata/3352

While this doesn't let you specify page titles per se, if your page titles and articles titles are so different that you need to specify, you probably aren't writing very good article titles anyway. (in most cases)

I've done so using the Custom Page Title plugin.

The plugin calls on the Key Reference field, which K2 doesn't include in the metadata options for its content items, but it's possible to add this by adding the following line of code to administrator/components/com_k2/models/item.xml:

<param name="keyref" type="text" size="25" default="" label="Key Reference" description="PARAMKEYREF" />

Since the K2 display doesn't call on all the same functions as displaying a Joomla article, I then copied the following code from components/com_content/views/article/view.html.php to components/com_k2/views/item/view.html.php:

* Handle display events
*/
$article->event = new stdClass();
$results = $dispatcher->trigger('onAfterDisplayTitle', array (&$article, &$params, $limitstart));
$article->event->afterDisplayTitle = trim(implode("\n", $results));

Hope this helps. Seems to be working for me anyway :)

Björn said:How can i add the name of the category to the page title ?


Hi, know this is old but in case anyone else is still looking to do this...

In components/ com_k2/views/item open item.html.php

Around line 236 replace...

//$params->set('page_title', $item->cleanTitle);

with

$params->set('page_title', $item->cleanTitle . ' - ' . $item->category->name);

Hope this helps

To John mcelborough:

I’m still tackling this issue, so thanks for the tip.

I need the title to be formatted as follows:

Parent category | Child category | Item

Perhaps you can help with that. With your previous suggestion I get:

Item - Child category

Hi

$params->set('page_title', $item->category->name . ' | ' . $item->cleanTitle);

Should give you:

Child category | Item

Sorry I'm not sure how to access the parent category but sure there is a way.

John

ak2user said:To John mcelborough:
I’m still tackling this issue, so thanks for the tip.

I need the title to be formatted as follows:

Parent category | Child category | Item

Perhaps you can help with that. With your previous suggestion I get:

Item - Child category

Thanks for your assistance. Now I need somehow to find out how to add the missing piece.

Cant seem to find this file in the link - com_k2/views/item open item.html.php

Can you confirm?

Cheers Pd



John mcelborough said:Björn said:How can i add the name of the category to the page title ?


Hi, know this is old but in case anyone else is still looking to do this...

In components/ com_k2/views/item open item.html.php

Around line 236 replace...

//$params->set('page_title', $item->cleanTitle);

with

$params->set('page_title', $item->cleanTitle . ' - ' . $item->category->name);

Hope this helps

It's view.html.php.

Thanks for this fix John. The code

$params->set('page_title', $item->cleanTitle);

appears on line 233 and 236. Is it ok if we replace it in both cases or do we just have to replace line 236 and not line 233? I'm pasting the whole if clause here for anyone interested (it's after I applied the fix and as you can see I have commented out both line 233 and 236 and replaced them) :

 

//Set page title        $menus = &JSite::getMenu();        $menu = $menus->getActive();        if (is_object($menu) && isset($menu->query) && $menu->query == 'item' && isset($menu->query) && $menu->query == $item->id) {            $menu_params = new JParameter($menu->params);            if (!$menu_params->get('page_title')) {                //$params->set('page_title', $item->cleanTitle);                $params->set('page_title', $item->cleanTitle . ' | ' . $item->category->name);            }        } else {            //$params->set('page_title', $item->cleanTitle);            $params->set('page_title', $item->cleanTitle . ' | ' . $item->category->name);                    }        $document->setTitle($params->get('page_title'));

just found this older thread today, if someone is still interested in this topic ;-)

iJoomla SEO does support K2 and many other components.

This was giving me problems too - Once I got it figured out I made a quick post on my blog.  Hope it helps someone.

yet i have not tried, you must try once if possible then its would be great and let me know when done? Novoline

Using file: view.html.php

Comment out or remove Line 248.
Replace with: $params->set('page_title', $item->cleanTitle . ' - ' . $item->category->name);



Line 248: // $params->set('page_title', $item->cleanTitle);
$params->set('page_title', $item->cleanTitle . ' - ' . $item->category->name);