The pattern overwrite the custom title

Am having the same problem.

Changing the priority to Critical as this key functionality does not work in 6.x-2.3.

Here's a patch that makes the following changes to page_title_page_get_title():

• Wrapped comments to a maximum of 80 chars per the Drupal coding standards,
• Allowed for space for special cases, e.g. the forum root just loads a variable so no need to do any other heavy processing.
• While identifying the type of object being viewed, it checks if that object can have its title overridden by the user.
• Additional special case: node titles can be loaded via hook_nodeapi, so load it there.
• If the object being viewed can be overridden it tries to load the appropriate title record.
• If no title was found it processes the title pattern as usual.

Also:

• Fix a bug in hook_nodeapi that would load the page_title even if the type did not allow it to be overridden.

This has allowed the page title to work as intended: if a page title is manually overridden load it first, otherwise use the pattern structure.

FYI this also rolls in the fix from #654672: Invalid title on forum root.

I've added a new ticket for processing manually-assigned titles: #689620: Pattern for processing manually-assigned page titles

To clarify:

• When using Panels to customize the taxonomy-term pages you must use e.g. "%term:name" as the panel's title.
• The overridden page title gets loaded correctly as normal and is assigned as the token "[page-title]".
• If set the vocabulary's page_title's pattern is set to e.g. "[cat] | [site-name]" it won't pick up the existing page title value as the "[page-title]" token doesn't exist; this includes the overridden value.

FWIW, we ended up writing our own token. If the pattern is set, and the "show field" is checked, it will use the custom page_title if set, otherwise it will use the set pattern.

Here's an example of the token we setup:

hook_token_list().
*/
function mymod_token_list($type = 'all') {
$tokens = array();

if ($type == 'taxonomy' || $type == 'all') {
if (module_exists('page_title')) {
$tokens['taxonomy']['mymod-page_title'] = t("Page title because ignores defaults.");
}
}
return $tokens;
}

/**
* Implementation of hook_token_values().
*/
function mymod_token_values($type, $object = NULL) {
$values = array();

if ($type == 'taxonomy') {
if (module_exists('page_title')) {
$term_title = page_title_load_title($object->tid, 'term');
$values['mymod-page_title'] = !empty($term_title) ? $term_title : $object->name;
}
}

return $values;
}

@chefarov the code from @techgirlgeek was missing some comment markers at the beginning. Did you catch that? Try this: