Step 2: Configuration

One of the first things you will want to do is to alter the Page Title defaults to test whether your installation process was correct. Navigate to Content management > Page titles to access the configuration page for this module.

The default title pattern is:

If you don't change this, the title will continue to include the site name. If you alter this, you can (if you so desire) remove the site name from the pattern. This is where you get the control of the text.

Page Title gives you granular control over the default title (the title used if no specific type matches), the frontpage title (used for the frontpage only) and finally one token template for each node content type. This allows you to configure, for example, your blog page titles to be in the form "title by author" and the forum node types to contain the board and thread the post is in, eg "General Chat > Where are you guys from?".

There is also a second configuration page which allows the administrator to control which nodes the Page Title field appears on. This allows some nodes to 'inherit' the title from the node title and other nodes have the option to override the page title. This is especially useful for promoting your blog entries to search engines. Usually bloggers write their blog title as something catchy, clever or funny to grab the readers attention. Unfortunately this tagline is not always the phrase searched for - in this case, the author could override the Node Title and provide a separate Page Title which is far more user friendly without sacrificing that funny title they spent hours dreaming up.