Bakery - Product name in PAGE TITLE tag?

[svsanchez]

Hello bakers, I noticed that Bakery product pages don't have a title with the product's name on it, so if I have for example 10 products on my Bakery shop each of them have the same title and description tag which obviously won't do any good in terms of SEO. I guess this is something already covered in the forum but maybe due to my limited English I couldn't find the right keywords for finding the solution, so could someone please tell me how to implement this.

I tried adding [TITLE] in my title tag but this didn't work

Thank you!

[jacobi22]

try simplepagehead

[svsanchez]

Hello Jacobi, thank you for your reply. I have installed simplepagehead and it's only half working: I do now see the product name on Bakery pages, but not the name of the site. I checked the source and found around line 233 the following line which I assume should be adding the Site Title to the Page Title:

if (strlen($the_title) < 15) {$the_title = $the_title. " - " .WEBSITE_TITLE; }

What I don't understand is why it seems to be telling it to do this only if the $the_title is less than 15. I thought about asking here before changing that.

One important thing about simplepagehead: it says to comment the encoding line in the headers, but since my site is in Spanish doing this broke all my accented characters, so I uncommented my UTF-8 line and it still works without showing strange things in the accented characters

[jacobi22]

i use 25 for the counter

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if (strlen($the_title) < 25) {$the_title = $the_title. " - " .WEBSITE_TITLE; }
but be carefull, the browser cut the title in the top of the browser window, if he is to long, you need the "golden middle" 

[svsanchez]

Hello Jacobi, thank you for your recommendation. I don't care if the browser cuts the title as long as Google gets it right!

[jacobi22]

Hello Jacobi, thank you for your recommendation. I don't care if the browser cuts the title as long as Google gets it right!

try it 
(the problem is not the google title, the "problem" is the page design in the browser window, there is no place for a title with 80 chars. in my project i have a short WEBSITE_TITLE and short page_titles in the shop pages, so i can use the counter 25 for $the_title in simplepagehead. play a little with this counter and find your limit