Custom forum- and post titles?

[renemark]

Tried to find an answer to this one. Is there a way to manipulate the <title> tag for different forums or posts? For Example I have a forum called "Affiliate", thats not a good title for the seo and I want to change to something like "Afffiliate help, forum discusion and more".

[Joe Ward]

No - we do not have any feature like that available, for custom forum titles at this time.

The only thing we could recommend is to name the forum with the full title you desire and then shorten the actual URL by creating a vBSEO slug.

[renemark]

Ok... But the url is really not important in this case. Is there a way to do this in the code with if-conditions that anyone know about?

[Joe Ward]

I suppose you could do a long conditional checking for each forum ID, and then writing the desired title.

[Hilium]

Is there a way to include forum's description in the title tags of forumdisplay.php?

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Yes, you can. You should modify FORUMDISPLAY template for that:
FIND:

<title>$foruminfo[title_clean]<if condition="$pagenumber>1"> - <phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase></if> - $vboptions[bbtitle]</title>

REPLACE WITH:

<title>$foruminfo[title_clean]<if condition="$pagenumber>1"> - <phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase></if> - $foruminfo[description_clean] - $vboptions[bbtitle]</title>

[gwerzal]

Dont know if it will conflict with vbseo but there is a mod that does exactly what you are looking for at vbulletin.org