Magento – Magento: Category Name vs Page Title Name

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How can a page title name (not meta) be different from the Category "Name"?

For example:

Main Category 1: ABC

Sub-Category (under ABC): DEF

On the navigation menu, the main category is displayed as "ABC" and the sub-category as DEF. However, when I user clicks on the DEF sub-category, how can the page title (on the page) be something other than the (default) DEF name? For example, DEF Stuff.

In other words, how can we have a page title (on the page; not meta) that is different from the category Name (field)?

Best Answer

you can add a new category attribute called page_title. Here is a tutorial on how to do it.
Then edit the template app/design/frontend/{package}/{theme}/template/catalog/category/view.phtml and replace

<h1><?php echo $_helper->categoryAttribute($_category, $_category->getName(), 'name') ?></h1>

with

<h1>
<?php if ($category->getPageTitle()):?>
    <?php echo $_helper->categoryAttribute($_category, $_category->getPageTitle(), 'page_title') ?>
<?php else: ?>
    <?php echo $_helper->categoryAttribute($_category, $_category->getName(), 'name') ?>
<?php endif;?>
</h1>

now you can fill in for your DEF category the field page title with DEF stuff and it will be displayed on the page. If you don't fill in the page title field, the category name will be used.

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Magento – Getting 404 error on category page

In Magento you can only have one root category per store.

If you are unfamiliar with Magento's Global->Website->Store->Storeview Scope structure , try reading something like this: Magento Multi Store, Websites and Storeviews Explained or this:How to set multiple websites with multiple store views in Magento

Long story short. In the front-end you cannot have two Root Categories shown simultaneously. Make two Level-1 categories Root->Default and Root->Collections and move the respective subcategories in there.

Page Title – Change Page Title and Meta Description in .phtml File

This is not really possible. It is just possible in very few template files. The problem is, that Magento renders the template files hierarchically. Naturally, the head block where the title and the description are rendered, is rendered in the beginning of that process. You could update the information in general template files like 2columns-right.phtml if you insert the following before the call to $this->getChildHtml('head'):

<?php $this->getLayout()->getBlock('head')->setTitle('My title'); ?>
<?php $this->getLayout()->getBlock('head')->setDescription('My description'); ?>

Mind that this is very bad practice. But it may be interesting that it works. If you insert the above code in a template file which is rendered later, the title and description will not be updated (since they have already been rendered before).

Maybe you can use some layout handles and update the title/description via layout XML? Something like:

<CATEGORY_3>
    <reference name="head">
        <action method="setTitle">
            <title>My title</title>
        </action>
    </reference>
</CATEGORY_3>

Best Answer

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