How do I prevent topic titles from displaying on each page?

Regular Joined: Oct 13, 2007 Posts: 61

Hi,

I would like to prevent the topic titles from displaying on each page, I know where to change the colour and alter the size of the title but I just can't find the code that makes it happen so I could remove it altogether if possible. Please could someone tell me where the code is?

Any help is much appreciated Smile

Thanks
Jane

Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6433

Displaying the topic title helps your website's search engine rankings - why remove that?

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:25 am

janeuk, could you also explain this following statement a bit more please?

"prevent the topic titles from displaying on each page"

Topic titles sound like you could be talking about the News module (which typically is in your home page), but it could also be referring to your page titles, which is what you see at the top of your entire browser window (the window title bar).

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:41 am

After rereading the post, I think I may have incorrectly understood the request. It sounds like montego is on the right track.

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:44 pm

Thanks for your replies, you are right Montego, I wasn't quite sure what to call them but it is the titles that display in the News module and also on the Content module pages too.

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:32 am

But, the key question is where on the page? It might be helpful in this case if you could take a screen shot and mark it up pointing to exactly what you are talking about. As I am still unsure which piece of *nuke is going to be applicable to you.

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:56 am

If you mean the article title and content title that is displayed on the specific content page (i.e. modules.php?name=Content&cid=12345) as opposed to the article title that appears on the index page, you'd have to change the modules/News/index.php and modules/Content/index.php files - that isn't in the theme. Is that what you're looking to do?

Worker Joined: Jan 18, 2008 Posts: 143

I think he was talking about the page titles. Like the box over top the forums says forums.

Let me check it out. I had them removed on one of my sites. If I remember I will get back to you. Smile

Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 5:37 am

If its page titles, then he can change this in header.php, but, hopefully SEO isn't a concern. Here is the code in header.php where the change would need to occur:

Code:

    if (isset($useDynamicTitles) && $useDynamicTitles && file_exists(INCLUDE_PATH.'includes/dynamic_titles.php')) {


        include_once(INCLUDE_PATH.'includes/dynamic_titles.php');


    } else {


        echo '<title>'.$sitename.' '.$pagetitle.'</title>'."\n";


    }

The part after the "else"... Wink

Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 8:51 am

Hi, thank you for all the replies, just got back to this, I don't know if its page titles but basically its the title of the page that you have to give when adding pages in the Content module for example. These page titles display in the admin section so you know the name of your pages, but it also displays as a title on the page. I will have a look at what you suggested Montego, and see what happens. I just used to alter the colour of it to match the background colour, (.option in the theme style.css applies changes to it) so it couldn't be seen, but it takes up a couple of lines so makes things look a bit gappy when I do that, so I figured it would be better to try to stop it appearing altogether. I'm not sure how to take screen shots of it, I'm still learning, but will try to find out. Smile

Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 10:18 am

For screen shots,

If you're using FireFox, you can use the Screengrab extension.

If not, you might try FastStone Capture

Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 1:00 pm

is it this?: