[theme-reviewers] Posts without Titles

[Chip Bennett]

p.s. that function should be prefixed with theme-slug, and the conditional
should be written in "Yoda" casing:

if ( '' == $title )


rather than

if ( $title == '' )


;)

Chip

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Philip Walton <philip at philipwalton.com>wrote:

>  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.
>
> Actually, as I'm writing this email, Emil posted a solution on the trac
> ticket that i really like:
>
> /**
>   * 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;
>      }
>  }
>
>
> This way you don't have to include an extra link if you don't want to.
>
> Thanks, Emil!
>
>
>
> On 4/20/11 1:58 PM, Chip Bennett 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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