[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #45516: Auto Draft title issue for custom post types

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#45516: Auto Draft title issue for custom post types
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 Reporter:  rajanit2000                          |       Owner:
                                                 |  SergeyBiryukov
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Future
                                                 |  Release
Component:  Posts, Post Types                    |     Version:  5.0
 Severity:  minor                                |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-screenshots has-test-info has-   |     Focuses:
  patch has-unit-tests needs-copy-review         |  administration
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Comment (by mindctrl):

 It's unfortunate that post_title is a required field at the table level,
 but then posts without titles are supported.

 > It seems like the Post List Table class should check for title support
 and use something else to differentiate the posts if no title is
 supported.

 On the admin side, this was the very first thought I had. Why show the
 title field if the post type doesn't support titles? It's the default, and
 it's where the actions row goes, but if you have no knowledge of WP
 internals, it won't make a lot of sense. Also the Screen Options dropdown
 doesn't allow you to turn off the title column display, even if you want
 to, presumably because actions are attached to that column.

 Any default fallback text for posts with no title is going to be confusing
 in the admin, without some kind of additional code to update the list
 table display. Is a list of 20 posts with "Auto Draft" really more
 confusing than 20 posts with "(no title)" or similar? There's still no way
 to differentiate them.

 `get_the_title()` provides an empty string for the title of one does not
 exist on the post object, but I don't imagine that's a common occurrence
 given post_title is a NOT NULL field.

 The Twenty Twenty One theme filters `the_title` to change an empty string
 to "Untitled".

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/45516#comment:72>
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