[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #3794: Generate post_title based on post_content

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#3794: Generate post_title based on post_content
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 Reporter:  Justinsomnia  |        Owner:  markjaquith
     Type:  enhancement   |       Status:  assigned   
 Priority:  normal        |    Milestone:  2.2        
Component:  General       |      Version:  2.1        
 Severity:  normal        |   Resolution:             
 Keywords:  has-patch     |  
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Comment (by justinsomnia):

 Behavior change indeed, but a pretty vanilla one that I think fills in a
 hole of missing functionality. Feed items with missing titles is not a
 "specialized case" in my opinion. I just saw your RSS 2.0 quote, a spec
 which will surely lead us down a path of ambiguity. Just for fun, you
 might be curious to know that the Atom spec sez:

 "atom:entry elements MUST contain exactly one atom:title element."

 I sympathize with the "I don't want WP generating my titles" perspective,
 but I believe that the vast majority of people write their own titles, so
 this is really only a behavior change for the minority of us who happen to
 not for whatever reason (link blogs, custom CMS). I am curious though,
 Otto, what would this break for you?

 I'd planned on creating a plugin to accomplish this, but I wanted title
 generation to occur in the same way that post slugs do, at the moment the
 post is published, and only if the title is blank, and before the
 post_name is generated. Based on my cursory understanding of the code, the
 only place to accomplish that is exactly where I inserted my
 {{{generate_title_from_content()}}} function call in wp-includes/post.php.

 I'm not sure whether this same functionality could be accomplished as a
 plugin with the present pre_save filters (I didn't think so, but I'm not a
 WP filter guru), or if this warrants a new filter hook... All pointers are
 welcome.

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