Problem meta title category Virtuemart 2.0

[Ruben_qlc]

Good morning.

I have a long time with this problem: In Virtuemart there is a part for SEO, for editing the title, description and keywords for products and categories.

The problem is that the meta title does not showes. There is a input named "Personalized Page Title". I verified that save good in data bases, so that the problem must be in the views. By default get the title category, but It should not be so, because the product has a title product, and title different for SEO.

El problema es que el meta title de la categoría no me lo pilla, es un campo llamado "Titulo de pagina personalizado". He verificado que se guarda bien en base de datos, por lo que el error debe estar a la hora de poner el title. Por defecto coge el título de la categoría, pero no debería de ser así, ya que en los productos puedes tener el título o nombre de producto y luego un título personalizado para el meta title.

Anyone else has this happened?

Thank you very much.

[jjk]

Virtuemart doesn't create a meta title tag. But maybe there is a misunderstanding concerning the "Title Tag". See here:
http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=96085.msg316820#msg316820
The 'Custom Page Title' (Titulo de pagina personalizado) overwrites the automatically generated 'Title Tag'. (This is hat you see in the browser tab) when you look i.e. at a product details page.

[lindapowers]

Hi jjk actually there is a bug in Virtuemart 2 concerning this.

The "custom page title" does not overwrite the "title tag" in  the default VM categories page (frontpage for your shop).

Actually theres no way to change the "Title tag" there and uses the menu name and the site name.

[jjk]

Hi jjk actually there is a bug in Virtuemart 2 concerning this.
The "custom page title" does not overwrite the "title tag" in  the default VM categories page (frontpage for your shop).

I don't think that this is a bug. The custom page title code was just implemented to allow overwriting product details and individual category page titles.

Actually theres no way to change the "Title tag" there and uses the menu name and the site name.

The 'Title tag' consists of the the key/string COM_VIRTUEMART_HOME="Welcome to %1$s" (approximately line 162) in the frontend en-GB.com_virtuemart.ini, where the %1$s is being filled with the content of the 'Shop Name' field in the Vendor settings. You can use a language file override to change the displayed 'Title tag' string for the 'VirtueMart categories layout' and 'Front page' menu items to whatever text you want.

[lindapowers]

Thanks but dont get it jjk

Our shop frontpage (default categories view in VM) shows:

MenuName | Websitename

And there is no way to change that, even entering a different title and telling the menu to use that one (as it works in any other menu whether is an article or a component)

The shop name in our case does not appear, are you sure of this?

I tested with beez template and happened the same in vm 2.018b

So basicly our title shows:

Shop | Websitename

Not very nice for SEO, why on earth wouldnt VM allow us to change the title from the menu directly?

Regards

[jjk]

Hi,
Meanwhile I discovered that I can change the page title as described above on my local test site, but for some reason it doesn' work on my live site. Both are using version 2.0.18b. But I didn't figure out the reason for the different behavior yet.

[lindapowers]

yep... I have tested in 2 websites and happened the same in both.

It uses the menu title and the only way to change that is changing the title directly.

Strange.

[Peter Pillen]

And if you insert "noindex, nofollow" in the meta robot field of a product, it is also ignored in my case ^^

[Milbo]

Please read here https://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=114033.0