XF 2.2 Removing the board name from our homepage

[Graham Smith]

Our board name is well advertised in our header logo, so there's no need to show it on our homepage.

I looked on this forum and found an old post which said put this in extra.less

.p-title {
display: none;
}

However, on our forum pages, it also removed these icons


Is there another solution?

 

[Paul B]

.p-title h1
{
    visibility: hidden;
}

Using that instead of display: none ensures the buttons remain in the same location.

 

[Ottavius]

I was able to use this option Hide Board title on one forum, but I could not do it with another forum, until I found the solution in this thread and applied it to the second forum. It worked.

 

[combatgamez]

.p-title h1
{
    visibility: hidden;
}

Using that instead of display: none ensures the buttons remain in the same location.

Does this change your google results or remove the title from google search results?

thanks

 

[bzcomputers]

Does this change your google results or remove the title from google search results?

thanks

Google typically still does display and use text on a page that is visibility:hidden and/or display:none in their search results. This isn't guaranteed but the use of css options to hide text does not block that same text from inclusion in search results and SEO factoring as far as Google is concerned.

 

[Mr Lucky]

I would not do it in case it is considered cloaking. You are hiding something Google sees from actual visitors.

 

[Splinter]

.p-title h1
{
    visibility: hidden;
}

Using that instead of display: none ensures the buttons remain in the same location.

That worked for me, many thanks!

 

[Sim]

An old thread - and I'm not specifically addressing the issue in the OP, but just in case it helps anyone, I built a very simple addon a while back which gives more control over what appears at the home page title.

Home Page Title

Set a custom title for the home page instead of boardTitle. Because the boardTitle is set as a suffix on all page title tags, you ideally want to keep it short. However, you also might want the home page for your forum to be more descriptive so...

xenforo.com

The intent was actually the opposite of the OP - to show a longer, more descriptive title on the home page, while allowing you to set the boardTitle in the options to something shorter - since this is used as a suffix on browser tabs and such.

It may still be useful for people looking for a solution - especially one that doesn't involve hiding text using CSS.