Is it possible to shorten the page title or make an alias for it?

[Boost]

Hi,

Due to SEO, my page titles are somewhat lengthy and are being cropped in the 'Pages -> Tree' menu. Additionally, they are verbose, making it difficult to quickly locate the pages. Is there a plugin that allows me to create an alias for the page title that would only be used in the backend, not the frontend?

Cheers

[zoeck]

You Can change what Field is Shown inside of the Admin Panel, you can find it in the Modules -> Core -> Page List -> Config

It is also possible to change this setting for each template individually, Just Go to your template and Open the Advanced tab, there‘s a config for this ? 

Just add a „Short Title“ field to your template and Show it in the Page tree…

[Boost]

30 minutes ago, zoeck said:

You Can change what Field is Shown inside of the Admin Panel, you can find it in the Modules -> Core -> Page List -> Config

I don't have that. Is it installed by default?

[Boost]

The place is Modules > Core > ProcessPageList 

Thanks.

[bernhard]

If you are using custom page classes since v206 there is the "getPageListLabel()" method: https://processwire.com/blog/posts/user-activity-v6/#core-updates

[psy]

An alternative approach using native PW is to make your titles the shorter version and use a field, eg 'headline' for the lengthy version. In your templates use:

<h1><?=$page->get('headline|title')?></h1>

This will output the headline if it's available and if not, the title. You can then also use the shorter version in front end menus, etc.

In the admin page list, it will default to the shorter 'title' field.

If you need the front end page URL to be the longer version for SEO, you could add a hook in templates/ready.php, eg (untested):

<?php

$wire->addHookBefore('Pages::saved', function(HookEvent $event) {
  $page = $event->arguments(0);
  
  // ensure it meets the requirements
  if (empty($page->headline) || $page->template !== 'your-template-name') return;
  
  // regenerate the page url from the headline field
  $page->url = wire('sanitizer')->pageName('headline');

  // Populate back arguments 
  $event->arguments(0, $page);
});

And another way....

In your template, Advanced tab, under "List of fields to display in the Admin Page List", simply enter {name-of-your-shorter-field}