Release 2.1.0 force crops site title if whole title is longer than 70 characters

[zamakkat]

The changes introduced in release 2.1.0 made some breaking changes when enforcing the whole site title to be no more than 70 characters. For example if I had a page title Privacy Policy and a site title Website Name - The very best website name in the whole Universe I would expect to get this:

Privacy Policy | Website Name - The very best website name in the whole Universe

but instead I get something like this:

Priv | Website Name - The very best website name in the whole Universe

After a while of looking around I realized it was a "feature". Ref: https://github.com/kpumuk/meta-tags/commit/1c4ed2157e4a869dc57ed521fbe562522c872ecf. Although I understand that this is SEO "best practices", I think it makes a lot of sense to make it optional or at least warn with a depreciation message on upgrade. And maybe just truncate from the end instead of truncating the page title?

[zamakkat]

Oh an for those looking for a fix, you just need to add an initializer. Create a file config/initializers/meta_tags.rb with this content:

MetaTags.configure do |config|
  # How many characters to truncate title to.
  config.title_limit = 70

  # How many characters to truncate description to.
  config.description_limit = 160

  # How many characters to truncate keywords to.
  config.keywords_limit = 255

  # Keywords separator - a string to join keywords with.
  config.keywords_separator = ', '
end

Change the title_limit accordingly to what you need :)

[kpumuk]

Considering closed :-)