Home Page Title

[Kyan]

Hello,

When a new page is created within the admin section the title field used appears on the website. However, this is not the case for the Home page. What do I have to do to get the title for the Home page to appear? For various reasons I do not use the home.tpl page so I need the title to appear in the home page used within the admin alone. I'm currently using my home page as a How It Works page and would really like this title to appear within a bar displayed just above the body as I have for all other pages created within the admin.

[Mike-N-Tosh]

Well, I'm not sure exactly how you are doing what you say, but the pages title for pages created with the admin simply use a header 1 XHTML element <h1>page title</h1>.

[Kyan]

My page title tag is located within my layout.tpl just above the body like this:

{if $title}{$title}{else}Site Title{/if}

Just above:

[code]{include file=$body}

[Kyan]

Sorry the last part of my last post was cut off, below is the continuation:

If I were to use a use a header 1 XHTML element <h1>page title</h1> in the admins home page I would basically have two page titles, one within my home page and the other within my layout.tpl. The title tag works for all pages created within the admin's Page Editor except �Home�, how do I enable the home page title tag?

[seymourjames]

I am a little confused what you are asking but in your admin control panel, you have main settings and you can define the site title. In the default situation (you have not modified anything), this should come up on your home page.

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by seymourjames

I am a little confused what you are asking but in your admin control panel, you have main settings and you can define the site title. In the default situation (you have not modified anything), this should come up on your home page.

I think what he is saying is that he is not using the default home page but instead using an admin created "extra page" and he wants the site title from the home page to show when viewing his new admin created extra page which is replacing his home page.

If thats the case I am confused as to why the home page template isnt just modified to remove whats not desired (ie categories etc).

[Kyan]

Within admin, then Settings/Page Editor there are 4 default pages. The first default page is �Home� with ID #1. Then there's �Terms & Conditions� with ID #2, then �About� at ID #3 and �Contact� at #4. The latter 3 pages display a Title according to what is entered within the �Page Name� field of the Page Editor and displays the page name by way of $title. Any new page I create within the Page Editor also displays the Page Name by way of $title. �Home� or ID #1 does not, it has been disabled as most people do not need to have the words �Home� displayed on their home page. I however would like for whatever I type in the �Page Name� field of page ID #1 to display by way of $title just like all the other pages.

[Eric Barnes]

When editing that page couldn't you just add it in the description field:

<h1>My Home Page Title</h1>
<p>the rest of the page text.</p>

[Kyan]

No because I use $title in my layout.tpl. I have a border around my content with a top bar displaying $title. If I add it to the description I will have two titles. One will be the default $title, displayed within my layout.tpl which I have set to display the site title if no page titles are assigned (which seems to be the case with page ID #1) and the second (if put in the description) will display within the content, just below $title. For page ID #1 no title displays when using $title. I would like it to.

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by Kyan

For page ID #1 no title displays when using $title. I would like it to.

I have to apologize if I am still not following you BUT If $title doesnt display when when using page ID1, how about adding logic to layout.tpl to check to see if its empty and if so use a hard coded value...

{if $title ==""}
then display this text
{/if}