[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:  7.0
Component:  Posts, Post Types                    |     Version:  5.0
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-screenshots has-test-info has-   |     Focuses:
  patch has-unit-tests commit                    |  administration
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Changes (by SirLouen):

 * keywords:
     has-screenshots has-test-info has-patch has-unit-tests needs-copy-
     review
     => has-screenshots has-test-info has-patch has-unit-tests commit
 * severity:  minor => normal
 * milestone:  Future Release => 7.0


Comment:

 I've been rethinking on this topic after a couple of days and got to an
 entirely new conclusion which for some reason has not be suggested so far:
 I don't really understand why we are setting a title at all here. If the
 title is not supported, we should simply leave the title empty.

 In [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/45516/45516.patch
 the first patch] they first settled to `(no title)` (which happens to be
 the default with no title), and I believe that this conditioned the
 direction of the whole discussion from there and brought a lot of
 misdirected thought about what to set instead.

 But I've been re-reading the whole conversation and thinking again about
 what [comment:60 wildworks said]:
 > Perhaps it would be ideal to set an empty string instead of forcing some
 string as the title? That way, it would work as follows:
 >
 > - Dashboard: `(no-title)` is displayed as a fallback.
 > - Front end: Nothing is displayed as a title.

 Which I completely misread back in the day 🤦

 In Gutenberg, by default, `No Title` is placed when no title exists. And
 since here there is no support for titles, so I entirely agree with him:
 why are we actually setting one?

 [[Image(https://i.imgur.com/37LQt7j.png)]]

 In most classic themes, a weird title is appearing (now it's Auto Draft),
 but if we set `(no title supported)` or `(no title)` or whatever, it will
 make 0 sense

 But since no title is supported, no title should appear (unless we
 obviously programmatically set one)

 [[Image(https://i.imgur.com/H9QQMOq.png)]]

 I have updated the PR and the testing suite. I'm closing
 [https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/73090 GB73090] as it makes
 no sense to me any more.

 Let's fix this ticket.

 cc @wildworks @peterwilsoncc

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