I mentioned above I'd post re what happened after adding hack to generate unique meta descriptions (and keywords) - well, look good and surely useful, but haven't noticed boost in visitor numbers. Still, can keep hoping!

I dislike threaded views.
But also, think having link to threaded view may be a way of creating duplicate content, with unnecessary spidering and indexing.
Is there an easy way to turn off the threaded view option (no matter if later choose a different template)?

Thanks alot. I have a question though..How do you change the forums homepage to say something different in the page title other than using your main sites homepage title??

Maybe this is thro changing board title in Fireboard config.
- tho not sure if also important I'm using sef patch from joomlatwork (tho currently, for 1.0.14/1.0.15, also getting sitename at start of titles: maybe as joomla normally creates)

Nah that aint it.

No matter what you do, I always have my main joomla sites page title all over fireboard. for instance - if there's a thread on my forum titled "funny videos" then I want the page title to say "funny videos" and nothing else. There's nowhere in the view.php file to make this happen?

Is it possible to keep the thread title the same throughout the thread? I want to allow people to post replies but not change the subject/title...

For example, if the original post is "Obama vs. Clinton" and the last post in the thread changes the subject/title to "Democrats Suck" can we keep the original post title "Obama vs. Clinton" as the thread title?

Thanks!

for thread titles, see a gomjabbar post on previous page of this thread.
Checking for this, I see on page 3 there's fix re having thread/post titles from post titles only.

Still interested in how to remove links to threaded views (surely much duplicate content otherwise).

[code:1]
//set page title if on Mambo 4.5.2+
if ($leaf->parent == 0) {
$mainframe->setPageTitle($objCatInfo->name . ' - ' . $jr_topic_title);
}[/code:1]

This code did not work for me. If you'd like you can test on this site: www.thomhartmann.com (go to Message Boards). I posted a reply to a topic and it changed the page name to the reply's title.

Any suggestions, help, is welcome!

Thank you!

don't think this is for thread titles from first posts

for that, as I recall, there's small hack to templates

erickaweb:

The problem is fireboard changes the variable $jr_topic_title, for no apparent reason. Here's how to make sure the page title always comes from the title of the first post:

In view.php, change the code after the Mambo comment line to:

//set page title if on Mambo 4.5.2+
if ($fmessage->parent == 0) {
$mainframe->setPageTitle($objCatInfo->name . ' - ' . $fmessage->subject);
}

brandonroy:

To set just the post title as page title, use code:

//set page title if on Mambo 4.5.2+
if ($fmessage->parent == 0) {
$mainframe->setPageTitle($fmessage->subject);
}

Also if anyone has issues with artio sef and the fb plug in, you can modify post.php to fix the email notify.