Feature: Better support for posts without titles (microblog posts)

[markphilpot]

Right now there is nothing that prevents the creation of posts without titles, but the UI shows empty regions for those posts.

It would be nice if instead it showed the first X characters (~120) of the post when there is no title.

[erquhart]

Totally agree.

[tech4him1]

Agree, but I think we'll have to wait for #445.

[markphilpot]

To be clear (and I don't know if this comment belongs here or #445) I was able to create a post without a title (and hence no slug) by relying completely on the time fields:

slug: "{{year}}-{{month}}-{{day}}-{{hour}}_{{minute}}_{{second}}"

I agree it's probably better to fix the handling in #445 before but it might not be required.

[barthc]

I don't think it's possible any more to create a post without an identifier field or with empty identifier field value, as this error
Failed to persist entry: Error: Collection must have a field name that is a valid entry identifier, or must have 'identifier_field' set
popups up. Even for slug format like so:
slug: "{{year}}-{{month}}-{{day}}-{{hour}}_{{minute}}_{{second}}"

[tomrutgers]

Just tested this and you are correct @barthc. That error only shows up in the console, so there's not a hell of a lot of feedback as to what's happening but the post isn't published anymore.

[tech4him1]

@tomrutgers Do we have another issue covering actual support of posts without titles, or should we reopen/expand this issue to include full support?

[tomrutgers]

@tech4him1 There was this one, #1700 but it got closed by #1543. We could reopen/expand but then again this issue hasn't been very active anyway.. Thoughts?