Single location page title format not working

[Anonymous]

I’ve tried changing the Single location page title but it gets over-ridden with the Location Name.

I read of a similar problem for event page titles here: http://www.e-dynamics.be/bbpress/topic.php?id=1788#post-6982 but there was no update as to what caused the problem.

For the record, there are no issues with the event title which works as I want it to but only on the Locations title

TIA

Tom

[Franky]

I don’t understand this: the location name *is* the title (when looking at the details for a location), so what’s not working correctly here?

[Anonymous]

What I mean is that in the EME Settings page, there is a form field for Single Location Page Title.

Whatever I put in there does not appear in the HTML <title> tag which is what I was expecting.

The same also applies for the Single Event Page Title which I just checked as I thought it was working but it’s not. (Same as other user posted in link above.)

Maybe I’m not understanding it correctly?

Thanks

Tom

[Franky]

I see what you mean now. No, the “Single location page title format” is for the page title (with “title” meaning a wordpress title, not a html title-tag). For now the html title-tag is always the name of the event or location in question. This due to the fact that the “Single location page title format” can contain much more info than one can put in a meaningful html title tag.

But that’s the current situation, nothing prevents you from convincing me otherwise 🙂

[Anonymous]

Ok, well PLEEEEASE can you move this to feature requests.

The reason here is purely SEO.

Particularly on the Locations page.

For example – if someone wanted to search for events at a location, I’m pretty sure they would search for Location Events (or in my case, Location Club Listings).

To be able to customise the HTML Title would (IMO) be a massive improvement.

I assume this would be fairly simple to implement and hopefully you agree there would be a benefit in it.

Thanks

[Franky]

On the locations page (plural), I don’t change the html title, so the one from wordpress is taken. Is this not the case?

[Anonymous]

That’s correct but I’m most interested in the individual event and location pages.

In other words, what is the most likely search query for someone to find an event.

[Franky]

Google doesn’t look at the html title tag anymore, but at the content of the page. But if you want, you can enter custom headers in the settings as well. Maybe that can help you?

[Anonymous]

I’ve already done the headers.

Would you be able to point me in the right direction on where to look for this and I’ll see if I can find an easy solution and then give you back the code?

Thanks

[Franky]

File eme_events.php, at around line 831, function eme_html_title:

change the line

$page_title = eme_replace_locations_placeholders ( “#_LOCATIONNAME”, $location );

to something like

$stored_page_title_format = get_option(’eme_location_page_title_format’ );

$page_title = eme_strip_tags(eme_replace_locations_placeholders ( $stored_page_title_format, $location ));

and you should be good to go (identical for events).

[Anonymous]

Thanks Franky – that worked perfectly.

I also did the same for the Events Title as follows:

Change Line:

$page_title = eme_replace_placeholders ( “#_EVENTNAME”, $event );

To:

$stored_page_title_format = get_option(’eme_event_page_title_format’ );

$page_title = eme_strip_tags(eme_replace_placeholders ( $stored_page_title_format, $event ));

Hope this helps someone else.

Is this going to end up in the trunk or not?

Thanks

Tom

[Franky]

Still considering it 🙂

Since it might change things for other users, it might be needed to create an extra option for it.

[Franky]

Implemented in trunk (untested yet):

* Feature: the html title of a single event or location can now also be formatted

See http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/574882/events-made-easy/trunk

Disable/enable of the plugin is needed for this.

[Anonymous]

Franky – this does not appear to be working with the Locations.

Was that intentional, in which case I’ll do a manual change again or did it get missed out?

Thanks

Tom

[Franky]

Tomchubb: what exactly isn’t working? The html title with a single location?

[Anonymous]

Sorry – should’ve been clearer.

In the settings page for ‘Single location page title format’ I have the following:

#_NAME Club Listings – What’s On, Event Info & Tickets

This used to work, but now it doesn’t have anything except the WordPress default Site Name

eg: http://www.plainandsimple.tv/club-listings/157/the-horse-groom/

However for the ‘Single event page title format’ I am using the following:

#_NAME at #_LOCATION

which is working as expected.

I’m sure the code changes above will fix it but I thought you had implemented in trunk although it stopped working during the most recent upgrade to 1.0.4

Thanks

[Franky]

In fact it was an error in the commit: I copy/pasted the code for event to location, so it never worked 🙂

Fixed here (with some additional variable-naming cleanup):

http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/609186

[Anonymous]

Ok still having an issue.

Example URL:

http://www.plainandsimple.tv/club-listings/7/the-white-house/

Expected result is: ‘The White House Club Listings – What’s On, Event Info & Tickets’

Actual result is: ‘The White House – Plain & Simple’

(In the HTML Title at top of browser)

I am using the follpwing in the settings:

#_NAME Club Listings – What’s On, Event Info & Tickets

[Franky]

Weird, I just tested this locally and it works just fine (with your settings). You did put this in the setting “Single location html title format”?

[Anonymous]

Yeah I did. And also de-activated/re-activated the plugin.

I’ve sent you a login to check for yourself if you have time.

Thanks

[Franky]

Your setting for “Single location html title format” is just “#_LOCATIONNAME”, resulting in what you have now.

[Anonymous]

So sorry! Hadn’t noticed the new field below the old one.

Thanks for looking into it

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