[theme-reviewers] Posts without Titles

[Otto]

For specific cases, I'd say this is acceptable. For example, if
they're using post formats (such as the "Link" format) to hide the
title, then there's no reason to have a way to get to the single post
page. I've implemented similar cases using post formats.

My preferred implementation is the one I used for matt's site. I made
it add a ∞ symbol at the end of asides, for example, which links
to the single post page. For Link formats, I intentionally left that
out, since I thought links weren't worth it. Although the comment
bubble shows up, I guess. Either way, it's an acceptable design
choice, depending on the specific circumstances.

You may say that they should have an explanation in a readme.txt, but
I wouldn't reject a theme solely on that basis, as long as it's
clearly not the default case.

JM2C.

Code to do the infin trick (adjust as desired):

add_filter('the_content',' mytheme_format_content',1);
function mytheme_format_content($content) {
	global $post;
	if ( (is_home() || is_archive() ) && ( has_post_format( 'aside' ) ) )
{ // add other formats as needed
		$content .= '&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="'.get_permalink().'">&infin;</a>';
	}
	return $content;
}


-Otto



On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:
> Because the user needs to have *some* way of reaching the single-post view.
> Chip
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Philip Walton <philip at philipwalton.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> A user, in response to a rejected them, posed this question re: smgrundy's
>> review:
>>
>> Cannot access single-page views of posts without titles from the index.
>> -> That's good, consistent and how I want it throughout the site. Is this
>> mandatory?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Still, what is the rationale behind requiring posts with no titles to have
>> a permalink to them?
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