'Alias for PageTitle' Plugin (Joomla 1.5 SEO without core hack!)
VAK18 created a plugin to enhance Joomla 1.5 's Search Engine Optimization without a core hack! This plugin will replace the title tag with the article alias, instead of using the regular article title. This is not a core hack, just a simple plugin, so you don't have to worry about modified core-files with each Joomla upgrade.
This plugin is released under the GNU/GPL License.
Installation:
If you have an older version of this plugin already installed, please uninstall that version first!
- Install the .zip package
- Go to 'Extensions -> Plugin Manager'
- Select the 'content' type plugins
- Look for ' Content - Alias For PageTitle' and publish it.
- You can edit the plugin parameters to add a standard suffix or prefix to your page title
- You can edit the plugin parameters to set uppercase/lowercase preferences
From now on, the Article Alias will be used to set the <title> tag instead of the Article Title. Great opportunities for Search Engine Optimization!
Update may 9th 2008:
Unfortunately, the Joomla
1.5 stable code created a lot of changes to the Alias field's content.
Spaces are automatically replaced by dashes, and the content is changed
into lowercase. Dashes are automatically reconverted into spaces by this plugin.
I have added some plugin parameters which enables you to set your preferences for uppercasing all words, only the first letter, uppercasing the whole title, or keep all characters in lowercase.
Besides that, you can now also set a prefix and/or suffix to your page title.
Download the plugin version 1.2
Reviews
"This tool will be included in all our projects as standard practice. Tested with several tools to verify computability and found no errors. Excellent work."
"Wonderful and simple! Very easy to use, and very helpful"
"Great idea and a clean implementation."
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