Section custom Title cascaded to nested sections and pages

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I have a use case for a section title in a multilingual site that I need help. Let’s assume the section is called news with an seoTitle of News. I want to assign the <title></title> value in head.html as follows.

  1. The section itself gets the value of seoTitle in _index.md.
  2. The nested sections and pages get the value of their title and also append the seoTitle from news _index.md at the end.

How to achieve this?

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You’ll need to access the parent page, something like .Page.Parent.Params.seoTitle.

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Which is the correct way to target the section (section’s _index.md) only? Coz in my code I have to assign a weight to it as below.

      {{- $title := .Title }}
{{- if and (.IsSection) (ne .Layout "contact") }}
    {{- if (eq .Section "news") }}
      {{- if .Page.CurrentSection.Params.seoTitle }}
      {{- $title = .Params.seoTitle }}
      {{- else }}
      {{- $title = (printf "%s | %s" $title .Page.Parent.Params.seoTitle  ) }}
      {{- end }}
    {{- else }}
    {{- $title = (printf "%s | %s" $title site.Title ) }}
    {{- end }}
{{- end }}
4

Compare .Page.Kind to “section” or test for Page.IsSection. Using weight is fragile.

5

You can also use .Page.CurrentSection.Params.foo. This is slightly different than .Parent because you can use it with the section page too.

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I made an edit to the code to show the full code because the <title> is empty for nested sections

7

If you need to get to the top use .FirstSection.

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Still empty. Edited the code.

9

I should have been clearer. You can use .FirstSection instead of .Parent if you need to get the top level section page, skipping the nested sections in between.

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What I mean is that, any usage of FirstSection makes the <title> attribute for nested sections to disappear in <head>.

11

This doesn’t make any sense.

12

This also returns empty

13

No, the .IsSection method will always return true or false.

14

I forgot this also works. But I wish there was a straightforward way to only target the section only.

{{- if .Page.FirstSection.Params.seoTitle }}
15

I think you take a break and revisit this later.

16

Returns some broken code %!s(&lt;nil&gt;). I will stick with FirstSection,

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Actually I always use workarounds for these issues. Working with nested sections is a headache.

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