Your current page template page <title> tag is:
<title>
<% if $MetaTitle %>$MetaTitle<% else %>$Title<% end_if %>
» $SiteConfig.Title
</title>
You can change this to use any variable or content that you would like.
Your current template code checks if the page has a $MetaTitle defined. If it does it will use this. Otherwise it will use the page $Title.
The last part adds the site title $SiteConfig.Title to the end. This field can be found in the CMS on the Settings tab.
The MetaTitle variable was removed from the core SilverStripe code in 3.1. If you would like to add this functionality back in you can do this by installing the SilverStripe MetaTitle module or by adding the variable and input to your Page class yourself.
Here is some code to add the MetaTitle variable to the Page class:
class Page extends SiteTree {
private static $db = array(
'MetaTitle' => 'Varchar(255)'
);
public function getCMSFields() {
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
$fields->addFieldToTab(
'Root.Main',
TextField::create('MetaTitle')
->setRightTitle('Shown at the top of the browser window and used as the "linked text" by search engines.')
->addExtraClass('help'),
'MetaDescription'
);
return $fields;
}
}
The variable will appear in the CMS on each page underneath the Content field.
