By PRN Admin on

I use Drupal exclusively for my site builds. One of the items that has frustrated me some in my sites is the Feed aggregator.

From the administration side, you can go to Administer :: Content management :: Feed Aggregator and address the functions of Add category, Add feed and Settings. You then can go to Administer :: Site building :: Menus and change the Menu link title for Feed aggregator to whatever you wish. However, this DOES NOT change the title in the browser title bar nor does it change the title heading on the page when you visit the /aggregator link.

So perplexed, I searched all the core files to no avail. Then I decided I needed to review the database. This was obviously being pushed via the database, I just needed to find the table. And I did. And because I know there are others as frustrated as I am out there, I am sharing and requestion you post my answer to any requests for help on this issue.

Solution:
Open your Drupal database (I use phpMyAdmin). Look for the table "menu_router". Within that table, select browser and search the Title field for Feed aggregator. Once you find it, edit that line item, changing Feed aggregator to whatever you wish the browser title bar and feed title heading to reflect on the page. at that point, save your edit. Go to your website and refresh your page and the change should be reflected.

And you're done. One simple edit. Enjoy! PM me if you have any questions.

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Comments

Andy Dorman’s picture

Andy Dorman commented

I am a newbie with Drupal. So I apologize if I say something really dumb here.

But after reading the above, I specifically did NOT try editing the Feed aggregator menu item at Administer - Site Building - Menus - Navigation. That turned out to be a mistake.

I DID change the Feed aggregator title in the menu_router table but that did not work for me. Perhaps it was a theme issue?

Anyway, fortunately I am very stubborn and I knew the title was editable cause we had done it in another site (but forgot how we did it, see what I mean about dumb?). So I kept looking.

Finally, on the site where we had successfully edited the Feed aggregator title, I went back to Administer - Site Building - Menus - Navigation and that appeared to be the only place we had ever edited the title.

So I tried editing it at my "problem site" and it worked.

Edit the Feed aggregator menu item to change the Menu link title to be what ever you want. The Description provides the text that pops up when the mouse hovers over the menu item. Enable it too if you want it to show in your standard Navigation menu. But enabling is not required to modify the title. We created a special menu link for our news feeds so we did NOT enable it.

This was all that was needed to change the title of the aggregator node display...at least in the Pixture and Salamander themes.

I expect this might not have worked for DrupalMom if this capability has only recently been added? Or again it may be a theme issue.

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fox commented

"Edit the Feed aggregator menu item to change the Menu link title to be what ever you want."

Thanks - worked for me.

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PortableFan commented

I was finishing up work on a series of new websites I'm creating and suddenly found myself in the same position as you, Andy. I wanted to change the page title name from Feed Aggregator to Navy News. I KNEW it could be done. I went to an older site of mine and saw it was there. I just couldn't recall what in the world I had done.

Thanks to Google putting this post at the top of my search results I've been reminded. I am, in turn, thankful you posted this tip up in the forums for others to find.