Some of my category pages have many items/articles, so my pagination can sometimes be long.

I want to add a prefix Page 2, Page 3, Page 4 on the pages after the initial page, so that my page titles do not look like duplicates for SEO purposes

Please can anybody help me with adding in the prefix so title on page two looks like this Page 2 | My Page Title and incrementing for additional pages in the pagination sequence.

What code can I use and where best to add it?

Alternatively how can I create a canonical link back to page one for the inner pagination pages?

Thanks in advance,

Andy

I would recommend you used the sh404sef extension which solves this issue with the duplicate pages.

Another solution, haven't tried it myself, is this
forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=544&t=454510&view=previous
along with SEF enabled of course.

Hi, thanks for your reply.
I do use SH404 SEF & it works pretty well for the most part.

My question/problem is for pages with pagination (i.e. page 2 of a list of articles), I want page to have a slightly different Title soa maybe prefix all pagination pages with P1 | , P2 |, P3 | , Etc

Hi. No currently i am afraid that you cannot do this.

This is super easy.

In the file /components/com_k2/views/itemlist/view.html.php

Find (Line 196):

Change it to:

Change it to suit your preference for the text.

Theodore Hildebrandt wrote: This is super easy.

In the file /components/com_k2/views/itemlist/view.html.php

Find (Line 196):

// Set layout
				$this->setLayout('category');

				// Set title
				$title = $category->name;

Change it to:

// Set layout
				$this->setLayout('category');
				$titlesuffix = ' Page #' . (intval($limitstart/$limit)+1);
				// Set title
				$title = $category->name . $titlesuffix;

Change it to suit your preference for the text.

Thnaks for the solution Theodore!
What about the tag pages with pagination ?
What files must be edited?

And one more question. Can all this be done in k2 templates, and not to hardcore k2 files?
Thanks in advance

It can be done actually, but you need a bit different approach.
This function should be used docs.joomla.org/Customising_the_dynamic_page_title

That would be wonderful if it actually worked. Unfortunately, it does not.

I tried everything suggested both here on your forum and on the Joomla forum before modifying the code in the view.html.php. Nothing worked, except the code I posted above.

I agree that a method that does not modify these types of files would be most preferable. Unfortunately no method like that suggested so far actually works.

Have you actually tried that to see the result of it?

I don't think you actually tried it, or you would find this line is also incorrect:

"limit" is not passed as a request variable, since it depends on the number of leading items, primary items, secondary items and link items on a given page according to the configuration of that specific category page. So, it can't come directly from the component configuration, and it isn't passed as a request variable.