#wordpress 2018-03-13

2018-03-13 UTC
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[asuh] What does the Title column within Dashboard > Posts section look like when you post a bunch of new notes? Will it be a bunch of new titles that say `(no title)`? I never thought about this until I started trying it out and the OCD in me is kind of bothered by this 😕
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[Mike] [asuh] Yeah, it looks pretty rough when you have a handful of posts without titles.
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[miklb] https://cdn.miklb.com/Posts__Miklbs_Mindless_Ramblings__WordPress_2018-03-13_10-24-37.png
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chrisaldrich asuh, miklb: I've seen folks (especially ones syndicating to micro.blog) using something like https://wordpress.org/plugins/codepress-admin-columns/ to add a column to their UI to fix this.
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chrisaldrich Something like the slug/permalink would work if you use custom permalinks for titleless posts
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GWG I could try to do that in Post Kinds
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[asuh] chrisaldrich: That’s neat. I know there’s ways to do this through functions.php as well, to add columns to the Posts list view. However, considering that a note is intended to be short, it might make more sense to populate the title field with a short excerpt of either the post content for the note or the excerpt if it was used and when a title does not exist.
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[asuh] I do like, however, the ability to add those new columns if necessary
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GWG The problem is that notes aren't supposed to have a title
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[asuh] Correct, so I realize that technically speaking the title field should appear as `(no title)`
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[chrisaldrich] Its a bigger problem with micro.blog which doesn't do well with titles on notes, so your idea works if that's not a concern.
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[asuh] But, for those posts which are designated as notes when published, maybe it could display the first 260 characters of the notes in the title field, if that’s possible
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[chrisaldrich] Most Feed readers will duplicate things to force titles too
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[asuh] This lack of title is mostly just a visual quirk in WordPress’ Dashboard view within Posts/Pages/etc. Chris’ plugin suggest helps solve that issue to a degree. But I’m suggesting that maybe the Title field could show the actual note content (up to ~280 characters, similar to a Tweet as of 2017) in the Title field from the Dashboard view
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GWG I have failed to satisfy everyone on this issue
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[asuh] haha nor should you 🙂
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Loqi awesome
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GWG I would like to try
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[asuh] I’m just sharing my opinion and observation about this to help with the Dashboard UI to be more visually helpful
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[asuh] miklb’s screenshot above isn’t necessarily a problem but having actual Note text in that field would help someone like me scan over the posts when I need to revisit/edit/update one