XF 2.2 Remove prefix from before the site title for SEO reasons

[MichaelR]

So for SEO reasons i removed the prefixes from before the title if you look at the page title. So this is shown on the explorer tab itself and it works. Before that started with a prefix and now it starts with the thread title. Much better for SEO in my project.

So example is:


As you see on the explorer tab, it starts with the prefix (followed by the thread title). Crawlers will also see this and ad this prefix to your page title too. I did not want this because prefixes can change at my project.

I changed this by adjusting the thread.view template. (red = old, green = changed and what i use)


As i'm learning more and more i have a question about this.
What i am wondering is, if there is a better way of doing this. Perhaps so that i don't have to change the thread.view template.
A bit like using the extra less template. There you don't have to touch core elements of the site but you can adjust the layout.
Anyone know?

 

[Paul B]

No, it can't be done with the extra.less template.

There's nothing to be concerned about - the system has been designed to allow the templates to be edited - the merge function makes it easy to incorporate changes on upgrades.

If you don't want to edit the templates directly then create a small add-on incorporating the edits into template modifications.

Personally though I wouldn't bother - it's just not worth the effort.

I have edited templates on my own site.

 

[MichaelR]

As a new user of the platform this is good information for me. Thank you for sharing this. I will leave it as it is then.