[theme-reviewers] Posts without Titles

[Chip Bennett]

The only reason I would disagree in part is that for Matt's personal site,
the Theme is for his personal use, whereas for Repository-hosted Themes, the
Theme is for general, public use.

Unless and until a "convention" develops around Post Formats, I would argue
that the Post permalink should be retained, regardless of Post Format type.

Chip

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> 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 &infin; 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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