[wp-hackers] "enter_title_here" filter and Appearance > Menus

[William Satterwhite]

My suggestion looks a little dated. Thanks for your example Justin.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Justin Tadlock
<justin at justintadlock.com>wrote:

> Pulled from the code I use on my site:
>
> add_filter( 'enter_title_here', 'th_enter_title_here', 10, 2 );
>
> function th_enter_title_here( $title, $post ) {
>
>     if ( in_array( $post->post_type, array( 'theme', 'plugin', 'book' ) )
> ) {
>
>         $post_type = get_post_type_object( $post->post_type );
>         $title = sprintf( 'Enter %s name here', strtolower(
> $post_type->labels->singular_**name ) );
>     }
>
>     return $title;
>
> }
>
> On 8/27/2012 10:52 PM, Matthew McGarity wrote:
>
>> My plugin utilizes a CPT, and I am using the "enter_title_here" filter to
>> default the Title field on the CPT's Edit screen.
>>
>> In my original filter function, I initially forgot to call
>> get_current_screen() & check that the current edit screen was for my CPT
>> --
>> so as you might expect, the title default occurred on Posts and Pages, not
>> just my CPT.  My code:
>>
>> function mcg_change_default_title( $title ) {
>>
>> $screen = get_current_screen();
>>
>> if  ( 'mcg-cpt' == $screen->post_type ) {
>> $title = 'foo';
>>   }
>>
>> return $title;
>> }
>>
>> add_filter( 'enter_title_here', 'mcg_change_default_title' );
>>
>>
>> One additional side effect I discovered is that Menus (under Appearance)
>> are also targeted unless I add the screen check.  So if I added a new Menu
>> Item, it would rename.
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>>     1. Was this filter's effect on Menus intended?  The only Trac ticket I
>>     could find was the one that implemented this filter, and it only
>> discussed
>>     CPTs.
>>     2. "enter_title_here" is not documented in the Codex.  So I'm not
>> aware
>>     if there's a alternate filter to more narrowly target the title
>> (something
>>     like "enter_title_here_mcg-cpt", "enter_title_here-post", etc.).  Is
>> my
>>     code above the correct approach?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> MMc...
>>
>> Matthew McGarity
>> http://mcgarity.me
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