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Custom Page Title - SEO Plugin

This plugin allows you to change the page title of an article. This can significantly help you increase your Search Engine Optimisation by using keywords related to your article.

--- Installation ---
Download the plugin.
Install the plugin.
Enable the plugin by searching for 'Content - Custom Page Title' in your plugins manager.


--- Usage ---
Edit the article you want to change the page title for.
Enter your keywords or wording in to they text box 'Key Reference' which is located in the Advanced Parameters for the article you are editing.

Notes:
If you leave the key reference blank then the default page title will be set.

The same can be reproduced with the core Joomla 1.5.x installation on menu items, by changing the Page Title options in a menu item.

Joomla! 1.5.x cannot assign a custom page title to each article if you are displaying them in a blog format.

--- Update ---
Fixed an issue where the plugin was replacing the page title for blogs. The plugin no longer replaces the page title if the view is a blog type (frontpage, category, section).

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2011-11-09
Reviews: 1
This plugin is great and works exactly the way it should, but can you please update it for Joomla 1.7
this is the last extension which i need for upgrading my site to Joomla 1.7
2011-09-27
Reviews: 1
I'm new to joomla and just installed the plugin. First I indicated that I wanted the site name at the end of the title, now I can't find where I can set that up and second it appears both at the beginning and at the end. Also I type in the key reference at my home page and it doesn't work. Is it me that I'm doing something wrong?
2011-03-04
Reviews: 2
After installing this extension, I have two title tags for each article:

meta name-"title" (where it still pulls the name of the article)

and:



I don't want two titles, and I have not been able to figure out how to correct this. If I uninstall pagetitle, it still leaves the "key Reference" field in the articles. Even though this is blank, the articles still show up with two titles.
2011-01-28
Reviews: 1
Thanks for this very useful plugin. I'm sure it will help me get a much better ranking. I can really recommend it

I deducted one star for not being able to save key references that have the symbol '|' in it (I use this throughout my site to separate bits of the page title). I don't know if this is Joomla or the plugin, but upon save it will be left blank. Using any other symbol (such as /, \ or - do not give this problem.

Other than that, good job!
2011-01-05
Reviews: 1
Hi,

This is really a very useful extension for all the articles except the home page, could you please suggest that how to assign the home page meta using this extension.

Thanks
2010-10-13
Reviews: 3
Works just as it should and soo ezy to use. Thanks a lot this really saved me hours of work.
2010-08-21
Reviews: 1
I hoped for good things based on other reviews, but it just doesn't work. I tried it on two different sites running 1.5.15 and it did nothing on either. The instructions are very simple and I followed them and no result. I'd like to think it's me, but it sure looks like the plug-in.
Owner's reply

I'm sorry you were unable to get it to work. The plugin hasn't been changed since early 2009 and other users have had success using it, so I assume something might be wrong with the Joomla configuration.

You may have success if you check the following;
That the 'Page Title' is not set in the menu item for the article.
That you are not viewing a category or blog menu item instead of an article.

I hope this helps.

2010-08-17
Reviews: 4
Just as it described. I can change/add the meta title of the article without include the real article title. Thanks
Owner's reply

Your welcome and thanks for the review.

2010-06-24
Reviews: 5
Worked exactly as described!
Owner's reply

Excellent. I hope its helping your achieve better SEO.

2010-05-14
Reviews: 1
My site's traffic had begun to stagnate and I was looking for ways of increasing it. Changed the title tags of my site, and BOOM! Traffic doubled! It's true what they say, title tags have the biggest payout in terms of on-page SEO
Owner's reply

That's fantastic, doubling your traffic is a massive gain. Good to see my plugin helped with the SEO work you put into your site.

2009-12-24
Reviews: 7
Works fine, Very Nice, and simple. thanks
Owner's reply

Thank you.

2009-10-02
Reviews: 3
Quick and easy install, and working within minutes. Does exactly as advertised.

Only gripe would be that it whilst it works superbly with articles, it doesn't have the facility to give category/section pages custom titles. Is this in the pipeline?

Other than that, it's great!
Owner's reply

Sorry it won't support Categories or Sections. Sections and categories don't contain a 'Key Reference' feild. If you want to change the Page Title for these, I think your only 'core' method is to set the 'Page Title' at the menu level for the item.

2009-04-16
Reviews: 4
...and I consider that an instant fail. This is a plugin for SEO that doesnt work with the most commonly used sef component out there. If this was fixed however this component would be indispensable.
Owner's reply

This 'plugin' was created to serve a need that I had for a Joomla website. There wasn't any needed to have it work with sh404sef, if you have the code that makes the two compatible I will update the package.

2009-04-12
Reviews: 1
Very easy to use plugin, and does what it promises to do, it solved my problem with article titles. It also worked on my local WAMP installation, although someone reported it didn't worked for him few months ago.
2009-03-30
Reviews: 1
I have been looking for a plug-in that allowed me to have a custom title on a page, but keep the title in the editor simple for people maintaining the site. I looked at the Joomla 1.5 SEO patch, but didn't like the idea of having to hand install all the files (never installed it). I installed sh404sef, but couldn't get it to work (uninstalled it). I tried Simple Meta Manager, but the home page had one title if I went to the index.php file and another if I went to it with all the dynamic URL attributes in it (uninstalled it). I installed Custom Page Title SEO and it did exactly what it said and allows me to make edits when I'm in the content editing area for a page. I'm working on a small site, so things like prefixing or appending items to the title won't be an issue for me. I needed a simple solution for a custom title and this did the trick for me.
2009-03-23
Reviews: 1
The Plug in is great for the article but in frontpage it will inherit the title of the last article in the frontpage.
Owner's reply

This has been fixed, thank you for bringing this to my attention.

2009-03-23
Reviews: 1
That Custom Page Titel Plug is really what I was looking for. Works great concerning article titles. Helped at once to improve my google appearance. But on the Frontpage, where in my case three articles are presented, it just overwrites the page title (what it shouldn't do) and takes one of the titles of the three articles. Any idea how to change this?
Owner's reply

This has been fixed, thank you for bringing this to my attention.

2009-02-25
Reviews: 4
Works as described. Had no problem installing on wamp or on live 1.5 site without errors. Only wish is to be able to extend function with an ability to have global site name added to title... just a silly wish.
2008-09-17
Reviews: 2
This works very well and can help your seo. I had to disable Content - Alias For PageTitle Plugin (1.2) before it worked, so if it's not working for you, make sure you disable this plugin.
Owner's reply

Thank you for sharing your solution, I'm sure you've saved a few people a couple hours of hair pulling.

2008-08-15
Reviews: 5
Its a nice simple plugin that works with J1.5 and doesn't break stuff. What it will do: insert custom title tags for articles exactly the way you want them, without adding site name before/after - if you want that, just put it in yourself.

What it doesn't do: custom title tags for sections/categories. (Use the native menu system instead, without the degree of control that you get with this plugin).

Nice work.
Owner's reply

Having a user review with what it can do and what it doesn't do, really helps other users understand how to use it best and save them from spending time trying to figure out what isn't working the way they want it to.

Thank you so much.

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