X-Cart forums - Add headings to category and product pages

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- - Add headings to category and product pages (https://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=22715)

Right....

Adding headings to category and product pages is very important if you want to become a topranker.
(Remember, always make a backup of your files and database)

1:
Run the fallowing query:

Code:

alter table xcart_categories add header varchar(255) not null;

INSERT INTO xcart_languages VALUES ('US', 'lbl_header', 'lbl_header', 'lbl_header', 'Labels');

2:
in admin/category_modify.php

replace

Code:

db_query("UPDATE $sql_tbl[categories] SET category='$category_name', description='$description', meta_descr='$meta_descr', meta_keywords='$meta_keywords', avail='$avail', order_by='$order_by', membership='$cat_membership' WHERE categoryid='$cat'");

with

Code:

db_query("UPDATE $sql_tbl[categories] SET category='$category_name', description='$description', header='$header', meta_descr='$meta_descr', meta_keywords='$meta_keywords', avail='$avail', order_by='$order_by', membership='$cat_membership' WHERE categoryid='$cat'");

3:
skin1/admin/main/category_modify.tpl

Find

Code:

<TR>

<TD height="10" class="FormButton" nowrap valign="top">{$lng.lbl_description}:</TD>

<TD width="10" height="10"><FONT class="CustomerMessage"></FONT></TD>

<TD height="10">

<TEXTAREA cols="65" rows="15" name="description">

{if $category_error ne ""}{$smarty.post.description|escape:"html"}{elseif $mode ne "add"}{$current_category.description|escape:"html"}{/if}

</TEXTAREA>

</TD>

</TR>

insert above:

Code:

<TR>

<TD height="10" class="FormButton" nowrap valign="top">{$lng.lbl_header}:</TD>

<TD width="10" height="10"><FONT class="CustomerMessage"></FONT></TD>

<TD height="10">

<TEXTAREA cols="65" rows="1" name="header">

{if $category_error ne ""}{$smarty.post.header|escape:"html"}{elseif $mode ne "add"}{$current_category.header|escape:"html"}{/if}

</TEXTAREA>

</TD>

</TR>

4:
Open skin1/customer/main/subcategories.tpl

replace:

Code:

{$current_category.description|regex_replace:"/[\n]/":"

"}

with:

Code:

<h1>{$current_category.category} - {$current_category.header|regex_replace:"/[\n]/":"

"}</h1>

<h2>{$current_category.description|regex_replace:"/[\n]/":"

"}</h2>

5:
Open skin1/customer/main/product.tpl

replace:

Code:

{if $product.fulldescr ne ""}{$product.fulldescr}{else}{$product.descr}{/if}

with:

Code:

<h1>{$product.product}</h1>

<h2>{if $product.fulldescr ne ""}{$product.fulldescr}{else}{$product.descr}{/if}</h2>

Good Luck!

Moving to custom mods....you are on an SEO custom mods roll! :)

Thanks for posting this, I was just going to write something like this for my site.

I'm just posting possible usefull mods of things I've finished for our website :)

Would this work for V3.4.6 ?

Thanks in Advance !

I dunno.... Haven't got any experience with..... I've created this one for version 4.05. Let's try it out I guess..

Nice website you have btw :)

Thanks for the nice comment.. Will look at it sometime next week .. of course do a backup first....

Michael

Just my 2 cents here - I opted not to impliment the product.tpl part of the mod - I think that visually the bold text looked bad. I am going to tweak the catagory fonts as well. I do like the inclusion of the missing text though... very nice and surprising that no one has brought this up before..

Well done!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vacman

The bolded text is because it's in a <Hx> tag. Use css to change the way it looks. You should always use <Hx> tags for the most important keywords in a page.

I use <h1> for the Category/product title, <h2> for the headline and <h3> for the description.

Yes, indeed! However, according to me there's no need to insert h3's in your product/category pages

It's not a big help, but I figure if you can differentiate the important text from the useless text, why not do it?

Yes, of course. It's not a big point, I can't see a reason why it would hurt your rankings.

I saw on your website that you have removed the pagenumbers (Px)of the html filenames of let's say, the category index pages (?). Could you tell me how you've done that??