[wp-testers] 2.3 Beta 1 changes semantics of get_the_title

Sean Hayford O'Leary sdho at sdho.org
Sat Sep 1 19:42:43 GMT 2007


Travis,
Part of me actually thinks all the get_the_* functions should be
filtered, but I definitely agree with you that having an odd one out
like this is a bad thing.

-Sean

On 9/1/07, Travis Snoozy <ai2097 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
>   The get_the_title function is now filtered, whereas in the past
> (through all the versions back to 2.0; I haven't checked earlier) it was
> not. This is a breaking change, since (among other things) filtering
> causes escaped titles to be returned, whereas before unescaped titles
> were returned before. While this makes get_the_title consistent with
> other get_the_* APIs, IMHO changing a public API like this is a Bad Thing
> (doubly so, since none of the APIs have solid documentation, making
> it impossible to tell whether one is using an API properly to begin
> with).
>
>
> Any other thoughts on this?
>
>
> --
> Travis
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