Can you change the page title to the thread title?

[guitarheroforum]

Since vbulletin.com cant help b/c theyre too good to help people who install mods.......which is the dumbest thing I ever heard b/c their stand alone software is garbage till you install some mods......

Rant over.......anyway......

I have installed vbseo and it rewrites the web address to reflect the thread title for each thread. Awesome.

How can I get vbulletin to change the page title from the generic title I put in the meta tags to the thread title.

If you search google for site:www.guitarheroforum.com all the titles are the same, i would like them to reflect the topic that each thread discusses.

Thanks

[guitarheroforum]

kinda like how this thread shows up in my browser now.

and will this mess up links currently indexed by google?

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello,

with default style you should have thread title included, make sure that you have the <title> tag defined in "SHOWTHREAD" template as:

<title>$thread[prefix_plain_html] $thread[title]<if condition="$pagenumber>1"> - <phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase></if></title>

[guitarheroforum]

will this affect currently indexed threads?

I changed it but the page title still says the same in the top bar of my browser

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Pages that were already indexed by Google will be updated (reindexed) after some time.

[guitarheroforum]

well the fix didnt work

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

What is your <title> tag definition in "SHOWTHREAD" template for your custom style?

[guitarheroforum]

this is whats there:

<title>$thread[prefix_plain_html] $thread[title]<if condition="$pagenumber>1"> - <phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase></if></title>

i am going to the "showthread" template by searching for showthread in the search in template option

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

It looks like you have 2 <title> tags on your pages: http://www.guitarheroforum.com/forum...etting-ds.html, you should remove the first one.

<title>Guitar Hero Forums - Community - Videos - Games - Contests - Downloads</title><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.guitarheroforum.com/forums/clientscript/ame.js" /></script>
	<title> Getting A DS</title> 

[guitarheroforum]

I found it, it was in the headerinclude

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Great, I'm glad it's sorted now!