[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 peterwilsoncc):

 For posts that don't have title support, it's not possible to assume they
 don't have a title. Title support indicates whether or not they are
 supported in the editor interface.

 For example, the WooCommerce post type `shop_order` doesn't support a
 title but auto-generates one
 [https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/blob/42c06d73f27eb6e9c76816a849f822f442f4530d/plugins/woocommerce/includes
 /class-wc-post-data.php#L281-L286 based on the order date].

 The shortnotes plugin, which is used for social posts, similar to the
 example in this ticket's description, also
 [https://github.com/jeremyfelt/shortnotes/blob/fbe89dbbaa4a75b519916f2d88e03ea7f27b3085/includes
 /post-type-note.php#L319 auto generates a title based on the content].

 For copy, some options are:

 * display the generated title if it exists
 * the first N characters of the content if it exists
 * (Post type) @ (long form date)

 For SEO reasons, the title on the front end should be different for each
 post. I recently messed up the SEO for some post types that don't support
 titles in the editor on my site and Bing Webmaster tools displayed the
 warning `Too many pages with identical titles.` The solution needs to
 avoid that.

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 To be clear, because I feel my opinion is being somewhat misrepresented. I
 AM NOT disagreeing with `(no title supported)` because @helen said so. I
 respect Helen's opinion but have been known to disagree with her on
 numerous occasions.

 The order of operations for my comment was that I felt the new copy was
 not suitable to solve this ticket so I reviewed the discussion and found
 that it had previously been reverted due to much the same concerns I had.
 It's easier to refer back to existing comments that repeat them.

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