How to remove the menu name -Home from the Browser page title? Joomla 2.5 +

Question

I want to remove the browser page title which appears on the browser like:

Example Name site - Home.

and be like:

Example Name Site

I know the "Browser Page Title" under "Page Display Options", but if I leave it empty, it uses the Menu Item Title..

I want this omission of browser page title only for the home page.

EDIT: To state it again and clear: What I want is that my 'Browser Title' should be blank and NOT pick up a title from the "Menu Title".

Important: The solution should be working for bilingual (or multilingual) websites, that means "My Website - Home" will be "My Website" and other languages will follow the same rule, i.e. "Mon Website - Accueil" will be "Mon Website".

ps. I'd like a solution for Joomla 2.5 but it would be nice if users with other versions could be helped as well.

Answer 1

Make sure "Show Page Heading" is set to No under Page Display Options for the Home menu item. That will hide the title as long as you have also set "Show Title" to Hide under Article options of the same menu item.

Answer 2

    <?php
        $title = $this->getTitle();
        $app = JFactory::getApplication();
        //$this->setTitle( $title . ' - ' . $app->getCfg( 'sitename' ) );
        $this->setTitle( 'your funky title' );
    ?>

It is all in here

Try adding if(str_pos($this->getTitle(), "Part of your home page title")!=false)

Answer 3

The only solution I found until now (Joomla 3.0) is adding the following snippet in your template's index.php file before <jdoc:include type="head" />.

The snippet for my page looks like this:

<?php
if (!strncmp($this->getTitle(), "Home", 4))
{
  $app = JFactory::getApplication();
  $this->setTitle( $app->getCfg( 'sitename' ) );  
}
?>

This basically is a hack that replaces the title if it begins with "Home".

Answer 4

I strongly recommend installing AceSEF or SH404SEF within Joomla. AceSEF is free and does the job while SH404SEF tends to have slightly more features but comes a price. Joomla SEO is ok out of the box but its far from perfect, altering templates is ok but using an extension is far easier and does more SEO than just what you asked.

Answer 5

Title Manager can do that: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/seo-a-metadata/title-management/3521 Only show site name on home page: Yes