Setting to add the category name to the article title

corinaw

Hello,
My site is informational, and the articles are arranged by category and named by topic.

For example, the category is vitamins, and the article name is A, B, C, etc. Another category is minerals; the article's names are calcium, magnesium, etc., and so on. There are many different categories related to health.

Being category-driven works well for navigating the site, and the article index comes up clean and easy to read when a user navigates via the category list.

My problem is that the site title is extremely lacking. It only shows the short article name and site name, such as 'Calcium HomeRemedySite.com'. It would be extremely helpful if I could add the category or categories to the article title. I've looked all over settings and can't see where to include anything other than the site name (which I already do). Do you have any idea how to add this to the title, similar to the way the site name is also being added now?

Thank you in advance.

saguaros

corinaw Hi

Kindly check whether you override article view in template or not: templates/your_template/html/com_content/article/

If not, copy this file in T4 base folder:

/plugins/system/t4/themes/base/html/com_content/article/default.php

paste into: templates/your_template/html/com_content/article/

and edit it:

Under this line of code: defined('_JEXEC') or die;

Add this:

$doc = \Joomla\CMS\Factory::getDocument();
$category = $this->item->category_title ?? '';
$articleTitle = $this->item->title;
$siteName = \Joomla\CMS\Factory::getApplication()->get('sitename');

$pageTitle = trim("$category - $articleTitle - $siteName", " - ");
$doc->setTitle($pageTitle);

It will put the Category - Article Title - Site Name as you wish.

corinaw

Thank you for this information. Can you please tell me how to get both category and subcategory in the article title? Such as >> Supplements - Minerals - Calcium

saguaros

corinaw This will require a bit more customization. I can connect you with one of our developers who can assist with this. Let me know if you're interested.

corinaw

saguaros, Yes, please. I think this would be a great feature to include in the T4 framework as well.

saguaros

corinaw Hi

You can reach out to him directly via following channels:

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krumz

corinaw Agreed. This would be a very useful.

saguaros

krumz There is no planned updates for this moment unfortunately.