That works (and is actually what I use personally), but some Theme developers may not want anything to display in place of the Post Title if none is provided. Doing so is certainly acceptable, but does not negate the requirement to provide a link to the single-post view.<div>
<br></div><div>Note that the developer doesn't *have* to use the Post date/time stamp for this link. The developer can use whatever he wants - so long as the link is provided.</div><div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Philip Walton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@philipwalton.com">philip@philipwalton.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Right, I get that. I guess perhaps it's more an issue of why
WordPress allows you to publish a post without a title in the first
place. It seems to me that posts without titles have bigger problems
than whether or not a user can get to them.<br>
<br>
Actually, as I'm writing this email, Emil posted a solution on the
trac ticket that i really like:<br>
<pre>/**
* Where the post has no post title, but must still display a link to the
single-page post view.
*/
add_filter('the_title', 'blank_slate_title');
function blank_slate_title($title) {
if ($title == '') {
return 'Untitled';
} else {
return $title;
}
}
</pre>
This way you don't have to include an extra link if you don't want
to.<br>
<br>
Thanks, Emil!<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
<br>
On 4/20/11 1:58 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Because the user needs to have *some* way of reaching
the single-post view.
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</div>
<div>Chip<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Philip
Walton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@philipwalton.com" target="_blank">philip@philipwalton.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">A user, in response to a rejected them,
posed this question re: smgrundy's review:<br>
<br>
Cannot access single-page views of posts without titles from
the index.<br>
-> That's good, consistent and how I want it throughout
the site. Is this mandatory?<br>
<br>
I've wondered the same things as well. It's always seemed a
little odd to me to have the post date link to the post
itself. Personally I think the date should link to a date
page. I know there are other ways to create a title-less
permalink, but this is the most common.<br>
<br>
Still, what is the rationale behind requiring posts with no
titles to have a permalink to them?<br>
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