Feature Request: Better handling of untitled posts

  • Anonymous User 17976131

    (@anonymized-17976131)


    1 year, 1 month ago

    It’s always perplexed me somewhat that given that microblogging pre-dated sites like Twitter, and we used to all post untitled posts to our blogs (and some still do), that WordPress’ handling of untitled posts is anywhere from janky to nonexistent.

    So, my feature request: a simple setting where we choose the number of words from the start of an untitled post for WordPress to use for:

    1. slug generation
    2. creating a “pseudo-title”

    The latter, since the post page itself would not include a visible title, would be used in other places where WordPress typically needs a title. For instance: in the <title> element or in post lists such as on archive pages or search results.

    So, an untitled post that beings with

    Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old.

    might get a pseudo-title of

    Contrary to popular belief…

    and a slug of

    contrary-to-popular-belief

    if the setting was set to “4”.

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  • What you want can be achieved with a custom plugin, I think. Perhaps there is already such a plugin, but I am not aware of any.

    If you still want to give your wish to the developers, you can do so here: https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com – however, as I said, your wish is already very individual, which is why I see little chance of introducing it generally.

    Thread Starter Anonymous User 17976131

    (@anonymized-17976131)

    I don’t understand why every time I post a feature request to a forum called Requests and Feedback, someone always tells me to post it somewhere else.

    Anyway there are no plugins, and I have a vaguely working solution via ChatGPT but it’s seriously janky. Hence I made a feature request. It’s not especially individual. As I said, people did and still do microblog on their own sites.

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