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Changing ordering of page title and site name in Joomla

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It is good SEO practice to put the page title first in your title tags, and then your site name. Unfortunately, by default, Joomla places the site name first before the page title.

To change this, grab a copy of the file /includes/joomla.php

Around line number 507, replace this:

$this->_head['title'] = $title ? $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'] . ' - '. $title : $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'];

With this:

$this->_head['title'] = $title ? $title .' - '. $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'] : $GLOBALS['mosConfig_sitename'];

Comments

37 responses to “Changing ordering of page title and site name in Joomla”

  1. julz Avatar
    julz

    Thanks, what a co-incidence: this was exactly what I needed to fix. Saved me lots of time!

    – julz

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  2. haran Avatar
    haran

    It saved me time. Thanx Chette

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    1. Rado Avatar
      Rado

      Thanks, what a co-incidence: this was exactly what I needed to fix. Saved me lots of time!

      Reply
  3. Emilio Molé Avatar
    Emilio Molé

    I´ve been searching how to do this for weeks without any results.
    Thank you! 🙂

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  4. Ivan Avatar
    Ivan

    Chette, thanks, thanks and thanks four your help… This topic (Changing ordering of page title and site name in Joomla) is just that I needed… You are a fantastic woman… Thanks…

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  5. jandrochan Avatar
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    Hola! Era justo lo que andaba buscando. Funciona estupendamente gracias. 😉

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  6. dglite Avatar
    dglite

    Excellent, helped me a lot, thanks for your help and keep on working for the community!

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  7. Juan Avatar
    Juan

    Thanks that helps a lot for SEO

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  8. Marwen Avatar
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    Thank you very much !

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  9. jonn Avatar
    jonn

    thanks for your help

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  10. Jonathan Avatar
    Jonathan

    Can’t believe I found this!!! Thank you ;D

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  11. fifi Avatar
    fifi

    oh thanx u!
    i really neede this..
    🙂

    regards, fifi 😉

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  12. Tomelloso Avatar
    Tomelloso

    Wow, really great tip, I’m searching some solution for this for my joomla real estate and found this. Thanks for share.

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  13. Tony Lindskog Avatar
    Tony Lindskog

    Hi Chette, I just wanted to let you know that I did write the article and gave you kudos and link: http://www.joomlaviews.com/joomla-tutorials/how-to/changing-order-of-site-title-and-page-title-2008032983.html

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  14. Tony Lindskog Avatar
    Tony Lindskog

    Thanks for the tip – it is real sad that one needs to hack the source code to get such a basic thing to work.

    I am writing an SEO article for Joomla and I will include this tip as well as a link back for the tip.

    Reply
  15. LortGob Avatar
    LortGob

    Thanks, fast and easy!

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    Thank you for sharing this information. I will use it for my blog and change the order of title.

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  19. Deepa Avatar
    Deepa

    Its great. But in joomla stable version, the path to be changed is in ‘\libraries\joomla\document\document.php’ in that we have a function called ‘setTitle($title)’. The title is actually rendered from there. So you can change title according to your wish

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    Very good ;D

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    Deepa said

    Its great. But in joomla stable version, the path to be changed is in ‘librariesjoomladocumentdocument.php’ in that we have a function called ‘setTitle($title)’. The title is actually rendered from there. So you can change title according to your wish [url=http://www.wow-powerleveling-wow.com/]wow gold[/url]

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  24. josh Avatar
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    hi all! great post but im having some issues, Im using stable version 1.0.13 and using sh404 for seo. The problem is when I edit the code as above I get an error like ”
    SH404SEF : headers were already sent when I got control!
    Killed at line 149 in sef404.php: HEADERS ALREADY SENT (200)
    URL=http://www.tsibatsiba.co.zaoption=com_frontpage&Itemid=42
    OPTION=com_frontpage ”

    any help would be greatly appreciated!

    thanks

    josh

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  25. Su Avatar
    Su

    how can i do it in joomla 1.5.10.
    the path u’ve mentioned is available in joomla 1.0..
    here the path is /libraries/joomla/document/document.php
    but what i need to replace instead of line 545.
    function setTitle($title) {
    $this->title = $title;
    pls help.

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    To answer Su,

    function setTitle($title) {
    $this->title = $title.’putsitenamehere’;
    }

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