Add Category to your K2 Articles

If you're using K2 and Joomla here is an easy way to include your category and the name of your website into your page title. If you'd like to see the results, just look above... If you'd like to see the process, just look below...

Navigate to: com_k2 -> views --> item

Open your view.html.php file

Then search for this code:

//Set page title
$menus = &JSite::getMenu();
$menu = $menus->getActive();
if (is_object($menu) && isset($menu->query['view']) && $menu->query['view'] == 'item' && isset($menu->query['id']) && $menu->query['id'] == $item->id) {
   $menu_params = new JParameter($menu->params);
   if (!$menu_params->get('page_title')) {
      $params->set('page_title', $item->cleanTitle);
   }
} else {
   $params->set('page_title', $item->cleanTitle);
}
$document->setTitle($params->get('page_title'));

Where you see "cleanTitle", you'll want to add a "|" Then the category name another "|" Then your domain name. You do that with the following code:

..cleanTitle . ' | ' . $item->category->name . ' | ' . 'YOURSITENAME.com');

For example, my final code ends up looking like this...

//Set page title
$menus = &JSite::getMenu();
$menu = $menus->getActive();
if (is_object($menu) && isset($menu->query['view']) && $menu->query['view'] == 'item' && isset($menu->query['id']) && $menu->query['id'] == $item->id) {
   $menu_params = new JParameter($menu->params);
      if (!$menu_params->get('page_title')) {
         $params->set('page_title', $item->cleanTitle . ' | ' . $item->category->name . ' | ' . 'HaeckDesign.com');
   }
} else {
   $params->set('page_title', $item->cleanTitle . ' | ' . $item->category->name . ' | ' . 'HaeckDesign.com');
}
$document->setTitle($params->get('page_title'));

and looks like this...
Of course you can do some more tweaking, but I like to keep things as "White-Hat" as possible. If this was useful, toss me some social love!