How to remove forum title from CMS articles?

[Azonaco]

What about using something like this:

    <title>{vb:raw html_title} - <vb:if condition="$vboptions['cmstitle']">{vb:raw vboptions.cmstitle}<vb:else />{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}</vb:if></title>

The main goal that I want is to have a higher click through rate when at the top of SERPs. Having the title of my forum listed first before the article title would probably improve CTR.

[Brian Cummiskey]

It will probably have the exact opposite effect.

[brandondrury]

I'm not sure what you guys are after, but I got what I wanted by simply doing this.

<title>{vb:raw html_title}</title> 

At least I THINK I want this.

[syrus.xl]

This isn't pretty, but it does seem to work. There doesn't seem to be a better way without making a plugin and registering a template var for this.

Var to use: {vb:raw page_url}
<title>{vb:raw html_title}<vb:if condition="$page_url== 'http://mydomain.com/content.php'"> - <{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}</vb:if></title>

Load your CMS homepage and find the "var to use" string at the top of the page. It should be some sort of content.php url with your full domain, etc (un-seo'ed). Plug it in, and delete the prompt so it doesn't show on your site.

Also, in order for this to be reliable, you need to make sure you have set up www vs non-www's so there is only one access method.
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Hi, Brian, as a followup to the other post, could you please explain it a bit better for us?

I am a bit lost on what exactly the instructions are, do I create a plugin or, ... sorry I'm just a bit confused and need a bit more easy instructions please.

[Brian Cummiskey]

There's no plugin. The idea is to print out that string raw on the page, so you know what it is, and then delete it. Then you use that variable in the conditional.

[syrus.xl]

There's no plugin. The idea is to print out that string raw on the page, so you know what it is, and then delete it. Then you use that variable in the conditional.

I see,

but the explanation you gave me makes absolutely no sense to me..

Load your CMS homepage and find the "var to use"

So how exactly do we find this "var to use" string ?
eg. I load my homepage, myhomepage.com now what ?

print out that string raw on the page

What string, where is this string. then delete it, delete what exactly...
You have to be more specific and give us a bigger and easier explanation..
I am sorry but not everyone is a coder or can understand that jargon.

[Brian Cummiskey]

You find it by placing

Var to use: {vb:raw page_url}

in the template temporaily

load the site, and this 'string' prints out on to the top of the page.

[syrus.xl]

Okay, So I have done that exactly, and the got string which was something like "http://mywebsite.com/content.php".

So after using this code

<title>{vb:raw html_title}<vb:if condition="$page_url== 'http://mywebsite.com/content.php'"> - <{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}</vb:if></title>

It works on the articles but, affects the homepage along with all other navbar pages. The cms home page still shows as "Home - Mywebsite" when I want it to show as Mywebsite - Home ....

any ideas?

[Brian Cummiskey]

If you want to flip the display, you'll need to flip the above template too.

It should not just be content.php. It should show something like content.php?r=xxx

[Brian Cummiskey]

Apparently what is in this article is too complicated to follow, so here it is again, step by step.



Place
Var to use: {vb:raw page_url}
at the top of in the cms_page template

load your homepage
copy what prints out as that var to notepad/etc for reference later
go back to cms_page
remove that statement from the template
find the html title block in the template
replace it with
<title>{vb:raw html_title}<vb:if condition="$page_url== 'http://mydomain.com/content.php'"> - <{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}</vb:if></title>
replacing http://mydomain.com/content.php with what printed out as the var to use that you pasted into notepad