[wp-hackers] the_alt_title recomendation

[Chris Coggburn]

Ryan Boren wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 17:28 -0600, Chris Coggburn wrote:
>  
>
>>I believe that the Wordpress developers need to add a function and 
>>filter similar to the_title but for use only in the alt tags.
>>For example:
>>
>><a href="http://chris.coggburn.us/archives/2004/08/04/title-images2-plugin/" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link: <img src='titleimages2.php?func=generate&amp;title=stuff' alt='Wordpress Plugin: Title Images2' />">
>>  <img src='titleimages2.php?func=generate&amp;title=Stuff' alt='Stuff' />
>></a>
>>
>>That happens when the the_title filter applies html tag to format a title(For example, my Title Images2 plugin).
>>It would be much better to have a seperate tag called the_alt_title() which can have its own filter to format the 
>>title in the alt tags. Now, I was talking to masquerade from #wordpress and he mentioned that for PatchDay he made a patch
>>that would add this support Wordpress and he was told it was commited. Where is it? The bug is located at:
>>http://mosquito.wordpress.org/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000107
>>Without support for this feature my plugin will require users to modify their template, which I really wish I did not have to do.
>>    
>>
>
>Actually, that patch doesn't fix this.  It fixes something else.
>
>A separate tag may be in order since we want to strip_tags against the
>alt title but not on the regular title.  Or, we could replace all of
>this:
>
><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link:
><?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
>
>with:
>
><?php post_link(__('Permanent Link: %s')); ?>
>
>And handle the strip_tags in there.  For those who want to fix this in
>their existing templates, change it to:
>
><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link:
><?php the_title(); ?>"><?php strip_tags(the_title()); ?></a>
>
>  
>
What I was saying is to not strip tags but to allow plugins to modify 
both the permalink text and the actual title code though filters. If you 
give both a filter it would make things alot nicer for plugins that 
modify the title of a post.

>Something to think upon.
>
>Ryan
>
>
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