Update Articles plugin. Make Author and Tag page SEO friendly.

[carlo-13]

Hi everyone.

I’ve noticed a small issue with articles plugin.
https://modx.com/extras/package/articles

Tag and Author pages are using the same title <title> and as the blog home page.

Ideally,
Author page should be like: “Articles by author”
Tag page should be like: “Tag: TagName”

Is there an easy way to fix this?

Thanks.

[rthrash]

This issue has been mentioned on MODX Community. There might be relevant details there:

https://community.modx.com/t/reviving-articles-plugin/900/32

[JoshuaLuckers]

Let's continue in the right issue.
From: #147 (comment)

@carlo-13 getPage and getArchives, see:

Articles/core/components/articles/model/articles/articlescontainer.class.php

Line 328 in 48956b4

public function getPostListingCall($placeholderPrefix = '') {

Hi @JoshuaLuckers , sorry for my late reply.

I’m not a developer, I’m afraid I won’t be able to help 😬. Do you think this is something you could fix, I’m willing to financially participate if needed ( but I need to know how much/long this could take ). If you don’t have time or are not interested (perfectly fine with me), would it be ok if I bring another developer to fix the issue?

Let me know.

Tks a lot.

No problem! I'm not a maintainer of getPage and Archivist. However everyone is free to open a pull request, or fork the extra and submit an update to the existing extra (after MODX reviews it).
I appreciate you want to offer money for it but sadly I simply don't have time for it..

I think it's totally fine if you bring in another developer to fix the issue!

[rthrash]

This issue has been mentioned on MODX Community. There might be relevant details there:

https://community.modx.com/t/looking-for-a-developer-to-fix-the-articles-plugin/4569/1

[carlo-13]

I have tried to push a fix for the issue ( I hope I didn’t do anything wrong, I’m not too familiar with github ).
The solution was provided on modx forum:
https://community.modx.com/t/looking-for-a-developer-to-fix-the-articles-plugin/4569/2

I have added a new snippet and changed the page title on the article container.