Joomla ( title page override not working properly ) any techy guys out there
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Hey Mozzers
I am having some problems with joomla. I have tried many support forums and since everyone is in the same field as me, i thought this would be a great place to ask this question. I am working with joomla 2.5 and After i have turn on my search engine friendly configuration, you can override the ( alias ) of the page by providing page display options for title tag. so i turned on the SEF in global config and turn on the mod-rewrite and made sure my htaccess file was not txt.
But i am having some problems with this.
On some pages the page display option for the _browser page title _works and on some it does. On the pages it doesnt it is pulling the information of the Alias. ( which is common with most site )
Why is it doing thisYou can check out the pages yourself
Here is a page with it not working
http://tungstengem.com/mens-wedding-bandsand here is a page with it working
http://tungstengem.com/mens-wedding-...-bands-for-menAlso for my homepage when i didnt have my Apach rewrite it show the index.php and i was able to ad an alias to it. Now the Alias for the home page is not working
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The extra categories, menus, etc do not cause any issues. They make it more difficult to work with the site and find the root issue.
Imagine you set up a stereo that uses 10 wires for power, sound, etc. If you can cleanly view the 10 wires, it is very easy to diagnose any issues that may arise. Now imagine the same scenario but there were 50 wires, 40 of them which don't actually do anything but are there nevertheless. You wind up wasting time checking each of those wires to eliminate the possibility they are causing problems.
With the above stated, your question boils down to you are not able to properly set the Title tags on your Joomshopping product pages. You should ask the Joomshopping publisher for assistance.
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Hey Ryan , thanks for your input.
Ya i gave that information based on your stats on Seomoz being an oracle and all. and with all intent, the password is not an issue.
I know its a mess because i am working on it and i am not a professional and i will start deleting the filed i dont need.
But it is the overwhelming content thats causing the issue?
or is it joomshopping?
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Your sending me the admin information for your site was unexpected. I went ahead and logged in to examine your setup. It's a mess.
For example, there are dozens of categories from the default Joomla software and other extensions such as Parks, Fruit Shop, etc. All these categories should be deleted or, at the very least, unpublished since they are not in use. You should set up categories for you content.
Your articles are set up in a manner that is not intuitive. For example, you have a Wedding Bands for Men page. I searched for an article called "Wedding Bands" but it does not exist. This led me to your Menus. Once again, there are many menus not in use which makes the site more difficult to administrator.
The Wedding Bands for Men page uses Products, not an article which is part of JoomShopping, a specific extension you chose to install.
To answer your specific question,
**On some pages the page display option for the _browser page title _works and on some it does. On the pages it doesnt it is pulling the information of the Alias. ( which is common with most site ) **
There are different types of content on your site. There are articles and then "products" which are part of JoomShopping. The JoomShopping content does not seem to be displaying in the manner you desire. I have no experience with this particular extension.
As a note, your site is not professionally developed. You will continue to encounter numerous other issues if you do not either invest a large amount of time understanding first Joomla, then each extension involved on your site, or hire a professional.
Please change your password.
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Ryan thanks for an awesome advice and helping out here.
I emailed you the images since it was easier hope you dont mind.
Btw they are same type of pages Jmshopping category page . but still the Alias override should still work no?
Anyway I send the images to you . Config option, menu pages. ( which are Rings and Rings/Cobalt rings.
I also included the login info for the admin
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Your second example, the Rings page, is part of your navigation. In Joomla you likely have it as a Menu Item and a Category. The first example is likely an Article. These are handled differently. If you can post screenshots of your admin panel settings, we could offer better advise.
Please also share exactly what is the desired outcome.
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