UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Resources and Customizing How Do I? Adjust SEO Title

I'm trying to adjust header.tpl to display the subforum title (in addition to the topic) as part of the HTML <title> tag. It seems $forumTitle should do the trick (I see it defined in html.inc.php) but a null value gets displayed. Is there another string I can use?

BONUS Question:
I added to html.inc.php in order to define a meta description. Is there a way to move that functionality to header.tpl instead?

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You should probably adjust titles through the script files (posts are served through /scripts/showflat.inc.php, thread index is served through /scripts/postlist.inc.php) versus the templates; a lot of thought went into max lengths of the title element through various search engines via what is served by default for SEO exposure.

Only the thread view pages generate the description tag, unless you define a description for the forum pages (each forum has its own set of headers in the manage forum pages) CP -> Content -> Forums -> Details -> Custom Inserts tab -> "Use a Unique Header/Footer for this forum"

Thanks - I sent you an email directly. I had thought the intention with .tpl files was that we could modify them without breaking future updates too much?

As for the meta description, this gets built automatically:
<meta property="og:description" content="I have a possible new client

However, SEO folks all say this is super important:
<meta name="description" content="I have a possible new client

Hence the need for modification...

Why not just use the html included in th cp

I thought using the HTML Include would cause the <title> tag to get generated twice, no? Also, what string could I use in there to insert the subforum title for the topic? Not to mention the same header would get generated for non-post pages... Maybe I'm missing something here?

To bring this back up, I don't know why adjusting

<title>{if $inputTitle}{$inputTitle|strip_tags}{/if}{if $powered} - {$powered}{else} - {$config.COMMUNITY_TITLE}{/if}</title>
to
<title>{if $inputTitle}{$inputTitle|strip_tags}{/if}{if $powered} - {$powered}{else} - {$forumTitle|strip_tags}{/if}</title>
in the header.tpl template doesn't cause our HTML <title> to show the topic (dash) forum title.

I'm guessing the string $forumTitle isn't available to the template when it runs. Is there another string that would accomplish the same thing?