Content SEO Title – Putty In Your Hand

In my last technical post titled Content SEO – Hidden in Plain Sight, I exposed a caveat in the way the title of a content item is auto-crafted by Liferay. Here’s an excerpt from that article, which I hope highlights the problem. If not, I encourage you to give that post a read.


Note that the Title specified is Young Night. But if you look at what got into the page source above, you can see we had: Young Night – Browse Poems – Liferay. The page name and site name seem to get suffixed to the Title.

So, here is how I solved it: Lunch! Over at LSNA2016, I hunted down the Content Management Roadmap table and found Julio Camarero crowded by rabid developers bombarding him with all sorts of CMS questions. I took my seat across from him… and waited. …and waited …and waited …AND WAITED!

I eventually spied the door open and shamelessly stuck my foot in. In a blast of what felt like 400 words, I explained the problem as alluded to in my previous post hyperlinked at the top of this article. Julio nodded and responded with – I paraphrase – “Yeah, there’s a JSP in the asset publisher where we construct the content title in that way. Email me in a couple days.”


Here’s the full article on liferay.com.

Published by Javeed

Java/JEE solution provider. Liferay Portal enthusiast. I am a Software Engineer with a focus on highly maintainable solutions that lie at the sweet spot intersection of modularity, extensibility and development team productivity. I enjoy experimenting with innovative documentation ideas.

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