Editing Q2A main page titile

Question

Hi there. I'm using Q2A with great pleasure, but there is one question from me. How to add custom text to only main page title?

I'm using Q2A with no site name for SEO purposes and everything is great except the main page. It has no title. I mean www.site.com main page title is empty, if you get look to the page source it looks:  <title></title>. How can i add custom text to only main page, without disrupting other pages tiitle? Thank you!

Answer 1

You can specify title for home page using $this->template == 'qa'

There are two ways to do. In your theme file add this function

function head_title()

{

$pagetitle=strlen($this->request) ? strip_tags(@$this->content['title']) : '';

$headtitle=(($this->template == 'qa') ? 'YOUR CUSTOM TITLE HERE' : (strlen($pagetitle) ? ($pagetitle.' - ') : '').$this->content['site_title']);

 

$this->output('<TITLE>'.$headtitle.'</TITLE>');

}

 

Change YOUR CUSTOM TITLE HERE with whatever you want. This will display your custom title on Home page only

 

Answer 2

My way:

add in qa-theme-basephp

in function head_title() {

add these lines

$variable=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

if ($variable=='/') {$this->output('<TITLE> the title </TITLE>');

 

else

{ $this->output('  <TITLE>'.$headtitle.'</TITLE>'); }

 

}

Answer 3

In my case.

function head_title()

{

  $pagetitle=strlen($this->request) ? strip_tags(@$this->content['title']) : '';

  $headtitle=((qa_request() == '') ? 'YOUR CUSTOM TITLE HERE' : (strlen($pagetitle) ? ($pagetitle.' - ') : '').$this->content['site_title']);

  $this->output('<TITLE>'.$headtitle.'</TITLE>');

}

Note: admin->Layout->Custom content in home page instead of Q&A

Comments

May be I am wrong but I have checked and this doesn't work. I believe qa_request() needs a value to compare. When I gave value to 'qa' than it works. This means it doesn't make any difference. Please check and give your feedback. If it works than this can be better approach.

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Thanks Jatin. It moved in my environment correctly. Are there any differences in the environment of me and you? Moreover, I am also using PATH MAP of qa-config.php with the alternative homepage at my site.

admin -> layout -> Custom content in home page instead of Q&A : ON
  +
    $QA_CONST_PATH_MAP=array(
        'qa' => 'topics',
        'questions' => 'consultations',
    );

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Exactly! I am using the same setup. In fact fro custom page I am testing with one step further by defining Custom PHP page as a home page and not the Custom content in home page. But I believe both covered under Custom in the system and qa_request() should work for both if it does..

Answer 4

It's very simple :)).....  

Suppose my Q&A site Name is ABC. Then there will be only one page in my entire site whose title will say ABC.

So here is the code: 

 

function head_title()

{

$pagetitle=strlen($this->request) ? strip_tags(@$this->content['title']) : '';

$headtitle=(strlen($pagetitle) ? ($pagetitle.' - ') : '').$this->content['site_title'];

 

if (($headtitle == "ABC"))

 {

  $this->output('<TITLE>NEW ABC TITLE</TITLE>');

 }

else

 {

  $this->output('<TITLE>'.$headtitle.'</TITLE>');

 }

 

}

Comments

Which file has to be edited. I mean to say where I have to use the code.