Making the question title link

Question

Hi,

I want to use this function for making the question title a link. could some one please tell me which file i need to upload this script? and where to implant it?

TX

Comments

Are you doing this to improve SEO? I mean what benefit will you get if the title of your question (in the question page) linked to same pag?

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Hi,

Yes. It's to improve seo. I believe it's help....

Answer 1

1. Open /qa-theme/<your-selected-theme>/qa-theme.php

2. Look for function title()

3. If it is not there then just add this code to the file:

public function title()    {

    $q_view = isset($this->content['q_view']) ? $this->content['q_view'] : null;

    $url = isset($q_view['url']) ? $q_view['url'] : false;

    if (isset($this->content['title'])) {

        $this->output(

            $url ? '<a class="q-title-link" href="'.$url.'">' : '',

            $this->content['title'],

            $url ? '</a>' : ''

        );

    }

}

4. If it is there then you can try replacing it with the whole function from #3

5. If it is there and #4 didn't work you will have to merge them yourself

Comments

Hi pupi and tx for your answer.

I have locate the file. The function title wasn't there.

 I have paste your code in the file but then the whole site is not showing and not working at all.

Did i did something wrong? any other suggestion?

Tx again...

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Don't worry, it should easily be fixed. You must have pasted it in the middle of a function or maybe after the final curly brace. See this example qa-theme.php file and note everything matters except the "blah" :)

<?php

    ... blah ...

    class qa_html_theme extends qa_html_theme_base {

        ... blah ...

        function doctype() {
            ... blah ...
        }

        ... blah ...

        function title() {
            ... blah ...
        }

        ... blah ...

    }

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I see you're using a commercial advanced custom theme there. Firstly, remove that comment as that code should not be public as it is released under a commercial license, as far as I know. The best thing I can tell you in order to blindly help you add that function is to locate a file (always under your theme folder) that has the structure I've mentioned above. Try to look for a file containing "qa_html_theme_base" or maybe "doctype". Then follow the steps in the answer again.

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OK. I Hide my last comment (Tx for letting me know about that).

I have found in "my_theme_theme_base", file called "functions.php". I paste there your code before the closing "}" tag. now the site is not break but the title is still not a link.

I guess it's hard for you to help me blindly....

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Yes, it is quite hard without knowing what's on the other side :( Probably you can contact the theme developer and ask him how you can override the title function in that specific theme (probably linking to this question).

Another less advisable approach is to perform a core hack and add REPLACE the title function in qa-include/qa-theme-base.php but again, if the theme is changing that function then you will not see the change, but it is worth the try.

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Ok.

Thanks very much for your help. I will contact theme developer. He is actually very nice and kind and he surely will be helpful.

I thought I could do it by myself. guess I was wrong....:)

Thank you very much again....