Meta Title is not showing in Joomla website for Article pages

Question

I am facing an issue where Joomla article pages are not showing Tag. While it shows other meta tags as below :

Here is the URL of testing version site : http://dev.innvonix.in/enlight/

How i can add Meta title for those pages for Article pages. I have created Menu of single article.

Can any one help me on this.

Answer 1

I would better suggest you to totally remove the meta title tag as it is superfluous and a waste of code. It doesn't really add any value to the page.

Actually it shouldn't be there at all on a fresh Joomla! 3 site, as it has been removed in recent J versions, and plus there is no UI control to enable/disable it anymore. So I guess this is an older updated website, which somehow inherited this setting from your old configuration file.

To remove it, just open your configuration.php and find the corresponding variable - public $MetaTitle = '1'; and delete it.

Answer 2

I'd not come across the I'd not come across the...

<meta name="title" value="">

...meta tag usage. Thanks for explaining in the comments there.

I found a handy SO post on it at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21076201/difference-between-meta-name-title-tag-and-title-title-tag

In joomla this is not really provided in by default, however it'd be easy to add it to your template.

So you'd just edit your template's index.php file and put the code...

<?php
$active = JFactory::getApplication()->getMenu()->getActive();
?>
<meta name="title" value="<?php echo $active->title; ?>">

...between the head tags.

Alternatively you could use...

<meta name="title" value="<?php echo $this->getTitle(); ?>">

...either would work fine.

This assumes you're using a fairly normal Joomla template, it may be different if your template is a gantry, helix or t3 type thing from a template shop.

There are some notes on Joomla page titles at https://docs.joomla.org/Customising_the_dynamic_page_title

If you wanted to only display this tag for some components, as per your comment, you could just add a conditional. So, to have it only show on pages that were not Virtuemart, you could do...

$jinput = JFactory::getApplication()->input;
$current_component = $jinput->get('option');
if ( !substr_count( $current_component, "com_virtuemart") ) {
    ?>
    <meta name="title" value="<?php echo $this->getTitle(); ?>">
    <?php
}

For more notes on this, see How to check what component is being used on current page?