Parent Category name not shown in sub category page title
Anil_Gupta reported an issue where the parent category name is not displayed in the page title of a subcategory page. They expected the page title to include the parent category name, such as Parent Category → SubCategory, to avoid duplication of page titles for subcategories with the same name under different parent categories, which affects SEO.
codinghorror acknowledged the issue and considered it a minor optimization. joffreyjaffeux provided a fix in a GitHub pull request, which was later merged. The fix will display the parent category name in the title anchor, such as “Latest PARENT CAT/SUB CAT topics - SITE TITLE”, when browsing a subcategory page. The fix is available for self-hosted sites on the Tests-passed branch and will be included in the next release.
This results in same page title for multiple subcategories (with same name) inside different parent categories and SEO is affected.
Example: if i have ‘News’ subcategory under parent categories like USA->News and Australia->News.
Both subcategory pages will have the same Page title even though they belong to two different parent categories.
Please help with a setting, if any, that i may have missed.
Sure I can see that, but I expect it will be a bit of a micro-optimization… on the other hand, it is pretty trivial to “fix”, so why not? Can you take that @gerhard?
