Drupal Answers is a question and answer site for Drupal developers and administrators. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
I changed the site's front page from /node to another page. However, now the title of the front page is page name | site name. To clear up any confusion, by "title," I mean the phrase entered between the HTML <title> tags.
I tried this SO answer, but it had no effect. How can I declaratively change the name of the site's main page?
You can use the Metatag module. It has a section for front page metatags, where you can set the title.
<title>...</title> - i.e. that shown in the window pane heading or browser tab itself.
Apr 7, 2021 at 7:38
The default Frontpage is a view (admin/structure/views/view/frontpage/edit) showing a waterfall of all content that is Published and "Promoted to the Frontpage". By default, the Frontpage view's Title is "none" while the HTML Title tag is "Home | MySite.com".
So you can change the Title of the view there to e.g. "Start" and the HTML title will change to "Start | MySite.com".
If, instead of using the Frontpage view, you choose a node for your home page (e.g. "node/10 ), then you can name the page "Home" and the HTML title will become "Home | MySite.com".
If you don't want the title of the page showing up in the page's content area (but you do want it in the home page's HTML title tag), you can hide the title block in admin/structure/block/manage/yourtheme_page_title.
The Metatag module, along with Token, can also be used for this and general SEO enhancements, but you said you are trying to avoid that.
You can achieve this with a few lines of code implementing template_preprocess_html in your custom theme.
/**
* Implements template_preprocess_html().
*/
function MYTHEME_preprocess_html(&$variables) {
if (\Drupal::service('path.matcher')->isFrontPage()) {
$variables['head_title']['title'] = t('Hello World');
}
}
isFrontPage() only return true if the front page is left at the default /node/0? And of course I flushed all caches. Looks like the backslash leading before Drupal:: is a typo. However, what this code does is only prepend the page title before the site name, such that the page title becomes Hello World | Site Name
Jul 1, 2020 at 16:16
isFrontPage is doing now that you have it in your own answer or looked up the function yourself?
x_preprocess_page rather than html, which was the problem. I went to record the correct answer for posterity, not realizing yours was correct other than the minor issue of adding the ['title'] qualifier, which isn't what I was looking for. If you remove that, I'll accept your answer and delete mine.
Jul 3, 2020 at 2:46
It's not possible to change the front page title declaratively without adding a new module, such as the Metatag module. Drupal's core does not have this functionality. However, you can achieve this with a few lines of code implementing template_preprocess_html in your custom theme.
To achieve this dynamically in a subtheme, add this code to your preprocess_html function of your theme file or add if it doesn't exist.
function MYTHEME_preprocess_html(&$variables) {
if (\Drupal::service('path.matcher')->isFrontPage()) {
$variables['head_title'] = [t('Hello World')];
}
}
Note: Credit to @leymanx for the basis for the above code, which just needed a slight modification to update the title as originally asked, rather than just the portion of the before name of the site.
Exception class) must be fully qualified when used in a namespaced file. For example: new \Exception();. Do not use global classes. For the Drupal class, it's the same as the Exception class.