Different Tag and Archive Page Titles

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shaunmorrison Reply #1, 14 years, 9 months ago

Hi

Using (the fantastic) Articles, I can't find a way to change the title of the page when a user clicks on a tag or an archived month. Currently, (rather deceptively) it always just says 'Blog' whether they are at /blog/ or /blog/tags/articles/ or /blog/2012/01/

Previously, I used a snippet for tags:

//-- Get all request string key/value pairs
$s = $_REQUEST;
  
if($s['key'] == 'tags'){
  return $s['tag'];
} else {
 return false;
}

To display a tag as the page title call the snippet with appropriate input/output filters. e.g:

<h1>[[!dyntagtitle:notempty=`Posts Tagged with "[[!dyntagtitle]]"`:empty=`[[*longtitle:empty=`[[*pagetitle]]`]]`]]</h1>

The snippet no longer works sad

Before Articles, I would have a separate template for archive listings meaning I could change the appropriate text in there.

Anyone have a solution?

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shaunmorrison Reply #2, 14 years, 9 months ago

Tried to use input and output filters to get the Archives Page title behaving as desired:

<h1>[[+arc_year:notempty=`[[+arc_month_name]] [[+arc_year]]`:empty=`[[*longtitle:empty=`[[*pagetitle]]`]]</h1>

Unfortunately

[[+arc_year]]

didn't seem to like I/O filters applied to it. Tried calling it cached and uncached.

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jonleverrier Reply #3, 14 years, 5 months ago

Bump - Still looking for a solution if anybody can help!

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michelle84 Reply #4, 14 years, 5 months ago

I would like to know this as well.. [[+arc_year]] and [[+arc_month_name]] is not working for me at all, where should I place this?
I'm using friendly URL's, archive url looks like this: www.mysite.nl/blog/2012/05
I'm trying to display the title 'Archive may 2012'.
Thanks for any help!

http://www.vierkante-meter.nl

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khyrlik Reply #5, 14 years, 4 months ago

How you have managed to get archive url look like www.mysite.nl/blog/2012/05 ?!
I've tried even with clean install of MODX - there is always www.mysite.nl/2012/05 and of course they are not working.

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[email protected] Reply #6, 14 years, 3 months ago

I've just come up with one solution - may not be the best way to go about it but it works!

On the articles container template, include this (or similar) snippet:

<?php
$output='';
$get = $modx->sanitize($_GET);
if (ISSET($get['tag'])){
	$tag=urldecode($get['tag']);
	$output='Articles tagged \''.$tag.'\'';
}
if (ISSET($get['arc_year'])){
	$output='Articles posted during '.date( 'F', mktime(0, 0, 0, $get['arc_month'])).' '.$get['arc_year'];
}
if ($output!=''){
	$modx->setPlaceholder('extratitle',' - '.$output);
	$modx->setPlaceholder('extradescription',' '.$output);
	$modx->setPlaceholder('extrah1','<h1>'.$output.'</h1>');
}

This gives you placeholders to add into your title & description tags as well as a new H1 placeholder.

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[email protected] Reply #7, 14 years, 3 months ago

Quick update to show a page number in the tags:

<?php
$output='';
$get = $modx->sanitize($_GET);
if (ISSET($get['tag'])){
	$tag=urldecode($get['tag']);
	$output='Articles tagged \''.$tag.'\'';
}
if (ISSET($get['arc_year'])){
	$output='Articles posted during '.date( 'F', mktime(0, 0, 0, $get['arc_month'])).' '.$get['arc_year'];
}
if (ISSET($get['page'])){
	$output.=' - page '.$get['page'];
}
if ($output!=''){
	$modx->setPlaceholder('extratitle',' - '.$output);
	$modx->setPlaceholder('extradescription',' '.$output);
	$modx->setPlaceholder('extrah1','<h1>'.$output.'</h1>');
}

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shaunmorrison Reply #8, 14 years, 1 month ago

Late thanks to Chris.

I've adjusted the code so the pagetitle displays if nothing is set:

<?php
$output='';
$pagetitle = $modx->resource->get('pagetitle');
$get = $modx->sanitize($_GET);
if (ISSET($get['tag'])){
    $tag=urldecode($get['tag']);
    $output=$tag;
}
if (ISSET($get['arc_year'])){
    $output='Articles posted during '.date( 'F', mktime(0, 0, 0, $get['arc_month'])).' '.$get['arc_year'];
}
if ($output!=''){
    $modx->setPlaceholder('blogTitlePlain',' '.$output);
}
else {
  	$output = $pagetitle;
	$modx->setPlaceholder('blogTitlePlain',' '.$output);
}

Also, if anyone doesn't know. To call the snippet you must add

[[blogTitle]]

(or whatever you called it) to your page and then add the placeholder where you want it to appear – in this instance I called it

[[+blogTitlePlain]]

Alternatively, you could just 'return $output;' at the end of the snippet which would output wherever you placed the snippet in your template.

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astrodaz2 Reply #9, 14 years, 1 month ago

Pity you can't add Kudos here - but Kudos to both Chris and Shaun for a great thread!

I use the *description field on my blog, as the subheading under the main site title. I updated the code to use that, and all was well - except when I went into the post itself, the subheading would disappear.

So I added a new line at 3:

$default='My subheading goes here';

and then at 16 change

$pagetitle

for

$default

- and this also worked just as I wanted.

For anyone interested, I then updated my template and where I would have the [[*description]] I replaced with [[+blogTitlePlain]] and at the top of each article, I called the snippet [[!blogTitle]].

The only question is:
When I click on a year, I get 'Articles posted in December 2012' rather than just 'Articles posted in 2012'. Clicking on the month is fine, I it works as expected, just not the year bit.

I'm guessing line 10 needs a mod to account for the year only.... I don't know enough PHP to figure this out yet, does anyone else?

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astrodaz2 Reply #10, 14 years, 1 month ago

Well, whaddya know!!
I figured it out - quite simple really!!

$default='My continuing adventures in astro-imaging, and astronomy in general';
$output='';
$pagetitle = $modx->resource->get('description');
$get = $modx->sanitize($_GET);
if (ISSET($get['tag'])){
    $tag=urldecode($get['tag']);
    $output='Articles posted with ' . $tag;
}
if (ISSET($get['arc_year'])){
   $output='Articles posted in '.$get['arc_year'];
}
if (ISSET($get['arc_month'])){
    $output='Articles posted during '.date( 'F', mktime(0, 0, 0, $get['arc_month'])).' '.$get['arc_year'];
}
if ($output!=''){
    $modx->setPlaceholder('blogTitlePlain',' '.$output);
}
else {
    $output = $default;
    $modx->setPlaceholder('blogTitlePlain',' '.$output);
}

Hope someone finds this useful