In the PlanningAlerts project, we recently added a default page title for those pages we forget to add specific titles to. I added the initial code and Matthew did it properly cleaned it up, here’s the diff:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 | diff --git a/app/views/layouts/application.haml b/app/views/layouts/application.haml index 27d81d9..6b42b26 100644 --- a/app/views/layouts/application.haml +++ b/app/views/layouts/application.haml @@ -2,10 +2,7 @@ %html(xml:lang="en" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml") %head %meta(content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type") - - if @page_title - %title PlanningAlerts | #{@page_title} - - else - %title PlanningAlerts | Email alerts of planning applications near you + %title PlanningAlerts | #{@page_title || "Email alerts of planning applications near you"} - if @rss %link(rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href=@rss) = stylesheet_link_tag "memespring", "main", :media => "all" |
I thought other people might find this little hack useful for adding default page titles to their HAML templated Ruby on Rails projects.
I am no coder, but its a good seo move. Title is an important property.
Thanks Eri, that’s a good point that I hadn’t really considered.