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I need some assistance in changing the page title.... I have changed the language file where it says guestbook title to show "Reviews" and this changed the name of the admin page for the plugin, and I have the Static Pagetitle & URL set as reviews, however, the nav link at the top of the page, and the title at the top of my browser both continue to say "guestbook" instead. What else do I need to change so that the page on my site says reviews instead of guestbook?

Hi!

Hm, usually that should be it. Do you use an english language file, or a different language? What's the URL of your guestbook?

Did you set both the pagetitle and the headline to read "guestbook" in the configuration of the plugin?

HTH,
Garvin

Is there an easier way than manually going into the database and changing it there? I really dislike manually updating the database...

I had changed it in all the places you mentioned, however, it was still showing 'guestbook' in the database. so i ended up changing it there, and that worked.

garvinhicking wrote:Hi!

Hm, usually that should be it. Do you use an english language file, or a different language? What's the URL of your guestbook?

Did you set both the pagetitle and the headline to read "guestbook" in the configuration of the plugin?

HTH,
Garvin

I use an english language file. I set pagetitle to "reviews" both in the admin for the plugin, and in the language file. and in the admin , I set Static Pagetitle & URL to "reviews" and headline to "see what others are saying" but in the database, in two places, it still showed "guestbook" instead. I changed the database, and all changed properly.

Is there a way to delete entries, again without manually deleting the entries in the database?

Hi!

There is no need at all to do anything in the database!

What exactly are you doing, which fields/colu,mns/keys do you change manually? Everything should be accessible through the plugin configuration!

You can delete guestbook entries simply by visiting your guestbook while you'Re logged in, then you get extra admin options.

Regards,
Garvin

Yes, however, changing anything in the guestbook configuration page did NOTHING on my website. absolutely nothing.

The only thing it updated on the website was the part that says: Headline-- The headline of the page. and it would update the permalink. But would NOT update the page title at all on the website. That's why I was so frustrated.

Apparently my changes in the configuration were not updating the database with the new information.

the key I updated in the database to correct the problem are:

serendipity_staticpages --- the two fields "pagetitle" and "headline" -- both of them said Guestbook instead of what I had changed to Reviews in the configuration panel.

Hi!

lokiwolf wrote:Yes, however, changing anything in the guestbook configuration page did NOTHING on my website. absolutely nothing.

Then there's a different problem on your blog. Does changing the configuratin work for other plugins? Did you try it with a different browser?

But then you write:

The only thing it updated on the website was the part that says: Headline-- The headline of the page. and it would update the permalink. But would NOT update the page title at all on the website. That's why I was so frustrated.

Which makes your previous statement invalid. Please tell EXACTLY now, what does not work: ALL of the config setting, or just a SINGLE one, or SOME? And if SOME or just a SINGLE one: Which field name exactly?

serendipity_staticpages --- the two fields "pagetitle" and "headline" -- both of them said Guestbook instead of what I had changed to Reviews in the configuration panel.

This is unrelated to the GUESTBOOK plugin! The Guestbook pages are managed by the guestbook, static pages are managed by the static page plugin.

The only place where the phrase "guestbook" occurs in the staticpage table is so that the sidebar plugin of the staticpage can link to the guestbook plugin, but the display inside your blog head is not done by the staticpage plugin, but by the guestbook plugin. If you want to change how the guestbook is named in the sidebar plugin of staticpages, you must configure the static page plugin inside its own "Static Page" management panel where you can arrange the list of foreign plugins.

HTH,
Garvin

Well.... anyhow... it's all working now... The static page plugin works with the guestbook somehow, i'm not sure exactly how.. but the settings it had in the static pages table were overriding any changes I made in the guestbook config.

you can see how it shows properly now at my site http://tinyurl.com/3p7g3j

note how the "Reviews" page now shows Reviews up in the upper left corner of the main site navigation at the top, and it also shows in the browser title bar, where before it only showed Guestbook.

I'm not using the staticpages sidebar, only the staticpages. Since staticpages configures the guestbook plugin as a static page, but doesn't offer any naming options of it's own for that page, I'm guessing that's why I had to change it manually?

Dunno. I just know it works now... lol... All of my other plugins work exactly as they're supposed to. was just that one that was frustrating me... thanks for looking into it for me. I appreciate it.