CGBlog CMSMS adding SEO Titles to Posts

Tested this on:

• cms made simple version 1.12 pohnpei including the following module versions: cgblog 1.12.10
• cgextensions 1.49.6
• cgsimplesmarty 1.9.1
• jquerytools 1.3.6

Step 1

create a user defined tag called blog_cat_page_title and add this code to it:

$db = cmsms()->GetDb();

$query = "SELECT name FROM " . cms_db_prefix() . "module_cgblog_categories WHERE id = ".$params['category_id'];

$row = $db->GetRow($query);

if ($row) { $smarty->assign('blogtitle',$row['name']); }

Step 2

Add this code to the beginning of your cgblog summary template:

{blog_cat_page_title category_id=$actionparams['category_id']}

step 3

In the page layout template used to display your cgblog summaries, within the head tag, if you are using the default cmsms template code for your page title:

<title>{sitename} - {title}</title>

replace it with:

<title>{if isset($blogtitle)}{$blogtitle}{else}{title}{/if}</title>

but if you are already using your own code within the <title> tag and don't want to overwrite what you have, you will need to work this into your existing code

{if isset($blogtitle)}{$blogtitle}{else}{title}{/if} or something similar to make use of the $blogtitle variable if it has been set.

We have had some great success with this setting, let us know how you get on.