Change Page Title for Individual Manufacturer

[betterlead]

I have received a SEO report of my site and it says I should worry about the Manufacturer page's titles. Manufacturer Sef Alias I can of course play with, but what about the Page Title?
Is there any way? Is it in some way depending on the menu item?

I am rather ignorant regarding advanced coding... Simpler thing I might manage...

Cheers
/Betterlead

My site: http://livingstudio.se

I should perhaps add, I use VMuikit extension and the middle step to the manufacturer details page is skipped. Or one could say, merged, with the product list of the manufacturer. Also, the possibility of adding meta description here, would be good.

Btw, would it be an option to construct the manufacturer pages incl their products as product categories?

[Studio 42]

Hi,
VM already use in manufacturer page
$document->setTitle(vmText::_('COM_VIRTUEMART_MANUFACTURER_DETAILS').' '.strip_tags($manufacturer->mf_name));
So what is your page having this problem ?

[betterlead]

A title of a Manufacturer Page could, for better SEO, contain more information than just the Brand name. A short description in it.
And as I wrote, it would also help if one could fit in a Meta Description too.

[kratzi]

Hi,

yes true.

You can not set a manufacturer title nor a manufacturer meta description to a manufacturer.

I am also looking for a solution for that. At the moment the manufacturer title is 'Home- "Brand" ' so basically not saying anything.
And no possibility to set a meta description at all.

Hope someone knows a solution for this...

Regards
Kratzi

VM 3.4.8 J 3.0.12

[Studio 42]

You can use this code

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$document->setTitle(strip_tags($manufacturer->mf_name));
Or any other field in your template overides

[kratzi]

Thank you Studio42. Could you please assist me a little more.

What would be the proper code to implement f.e. manufacturer url as title and manufacturer description as meta description.

Thank you

kratzi

[Studio 42]

$document->setTitle(strip_tags($manufacturer->mf_url));  for url
$document->setDescription(strip_tags($manufacturer->mf_desc));  for description
$manufacturer->mf_mail for meta description is perhaps a beter choice ? I never use mf emails and now validation fitler are applied for this, so it work good for meta description(but is a limited in size).

And yes, i think some fields are missing in manufacturer, this can be quick done, but need that team want add the missing field.

[kratzi]

Hi unfortunately I still have no luck with this.

I have updated the code in components/com_virtuemart/views/manufacturer/view.html.php

Is this file correct for this purpose. When I override line 59 and 76 with $document->setTitle(strip_tags($manufacturer->mf_url));
VM will still not show the URL field as title.

Thank you

kratzi

[Studio 42]

Check if you have an override in your template.

[kratzi]

Is components/com_virtuemart/views/manufacturer/view.html.php the correct file to do the changes in.

How could I possibly have an override of this file?

[Studio 42]

DO NOT MODIFY IT

Is components/com_virtuemart/views/manufacturer/view.html.php the correct file to do the changes in.

How could I possibly have an override of this file?

BUt at this in your components/com_virtuemart/views/manufacturer/tmpl/XXX.php file or best overide the file you need to change in your template

[Milbo]

Please test the last version http://dev.virtuemart.net/attachments/download/1005/com_virtuemart.3.0.17_extract_first.zip

There is the feature to set a title for manufacturers, maybe that helps you already.

[betterlead]

Danke!

[betterlead]

Please test the last version http://dev.virtuemart.net/attachments/download/1005/com_virtuemart.3.0.17_extract_first.zip

There is the feature to set a title for manufacturers, maybe that helps you already.

Sorry, still not working. But as I wrote to you before and tested, nope.
Anyway, I now use the splendid extension EFSEO by Viktor @ Kubik-Rubik.
https://joomla-extensions.kubik-rubik.de/efseo-easy-frontend-seo

Cheers
/Dodo

[Studio 42]

Anyway, I now use the splendid extension EFSEO by Viktor @ Kubik-Rubik.

Check that such plugin not slowdown to many your website and that it's really needed. you can loose some seconds on using to many (system and content) plugins