More on Page Title/Event Title

[James]

Good afternoon. Many thanks for the instructions for the hardcode fix to the Page Title/Event Title issue. I have not been able to get what I needed from the theme devs and the FAQ was what I needed to get this working.

Although this fixed the issue with the display on the page, it didn’t fix the page title that displays on the browser tab. When I look at the code behind the page it’s showing the URL to the first event and the title to the next event.

Ideas on how this can be resolved?

Thanks!

[Barry]

Hi James – can you be a little more specific? I looked at one of your event pages and was not entirely sure about the problem you are facing.

[James]

Hi Barry.

Sorry for the delay on my end in responding. The problem was viewable from the front end in your browser. The page title displayed on the tab of the browser was still the title of the event rather than the title of the page. It displayed something like “Fun Event 2013” on the tab rather than “Event Calendar”.

However, since I posted I was able to get this resolved with the help of a WP coding guru friend of mine. The theme caused a great deal of problems and we ended up creating new header, page and functions files for the child of the theme in order to make the theme behave properly.

On the subject of titles, however, I’m wondering about titles on pages for a specific event category. I searched to see if there was anything on the subject, but could not find anything. I want the page title to be dynamic – if it’s a category within the event calendar, I would expect that to be the page title – otherwise, how will a user know that they are on a different view? (example – 2013 Home Bouts, 2013 Away Bouts, Events, etc)

[Barry]

Hi James. I took a look at one of your events and can see what you are talking about. However, on a default installation (running just WP 3.5, Twenty Twelve and The Events Calendar/Events Calendar PRO) that isn’t the same. In that case I see this sort of title:

Events for January 2013, My Category Name

So quite possibly this is due to custom code, your theme or another plugin. Can you try disabling all other plugins and switching to a default theme to see if it restores that default behaviour with titles?

If it does, reactivate everything one-at-a-time until (if) the problem returns – that way we’ll at least know what component is responsible for this.

[James]

It’s the theme. When I change themes to Twenty Twelve BAM! the calendar is just fine. The categories are fine. The breadcrumbs are fine.

Right now I have breadcrumbs disabled in the theme framework because they are not right for the event calendar and I didn’t have the patience or time to fiddle with it.

The breadcrumbs in this particular theme leave out the category. For category I end up with the pattern domain/events/category/category-name in the URL but the breadcrumbs show Home > Event Name If you look at the event itself the breadcrumbs display as Home > > Event Name with a null in the middle space where I would expect the category to be.

[Barry]

If you want to stick with that theme and want us to take a look you could always send it across ([email protected], marking the email for my attention and adding a link back to this thread) – just bear in mind it might take an extra day or two before I could respond for something like that.

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