Custom Override for Menu Item Category List Text

krumz

Hello all,

I may not have posted this in the correct spot but the tags were the closet I could pick from.

When you create a menu item that is a Category List, it lists all the articles in that category by the articles Title.

We have a company doing SEO work and they have changed some article titles that to me are a bit too keywordy for my liking and it just doesn't look good.

For instance I had an article with a title that read "Company Mission Statement" and another article title that read "Privacy Policy" and so on.

The SEO company has changed these article titles to "Cleaning Company, Mission, Bellevue, Seattle, Redmond" and "Privacy Policy, Bellevue, Seattle, Redmond" and so on.
so now the frontend category list looks quite spammy.

A little background -

I am rebuilding an old Joomla 2.5 website to the newest Joomla version and using the latest and greatest templates.

So with the old J2.5 version (which is the live site) I can go in to the article and under the Options tab in the Read More Text field I can enter the article title I once had - "Company Mission Statement" etc. and this is the text I see on the frontend menu item Category List.

Still with me? Hope I'm making sense here.

Now, with the newer and better versions of Joomla - using the Read More Text field does not do the same thing as it does with the J2.5 version.

I may end up going against the way the SEO company has changed the article titles but I am wondering - is there a way, an override or something I can do to display the text from the Read More Text field?

I've attached an image that will hopefully help visualize my above story.

Thanks.

teitbite

krumz Hi. I'm afraid it will not be easy to make it custom, but adding a title of an article to that dinamicaly shouldn't be a problem. Of course it will be like that in any article within that view. If this is something You want to try than tell me the url to the page where this should be done and include and access to joomla panel and ftp so I will be able to add it.

krumz

Hello teitbite,

Thank you. I am fairly good at getting in the code and customizing things and I would rather do this myself, - then I'll know that much more. If you know how I might go about this can you tell me which file would need to be changed and how I might go about it?

Thank you.

teitbite

krumz Hi. I would start with /html/com_content/category/blog_item.php if I remember correctly. Than just replace where You will find a "read more" with a value for a title. I think it was $this->article->title, but I may be wrong.

krumz

teitbite

OK thank you. I have been in that file looking around but wasn't exactly sure what part I should change. I'll let you know if I get it figured out.