🔗 Scripting News: Friday, April 3, 2026

Feature request for WordPress. If an item doesn’t have a title, you can do better than (no title) in the Posts list. Grab the first N chars of the body, or add a tool tip with the same text. I write a lot of “singular” posts, ie posts without titles.

Don’t we all❓It has been like this - forever - and oft’ flagged by others - and yet it remains never fixed. No idea why🤷🏻‍♂️. I (ok. Claude) fixed my importer that had this problem in less than a minute.

@JohnPhilpin back in the early days of micro.blog a few of us added a wee function that did just that to our functions.php
Mine is number 2 in this gist

@johnjohnston and just like that I enter a world that I don’t know - I will have a chat with Claude about your functions.php - thank you.

@johnjohnston and Claude totally made sense of this and now I understand (I think).

So any WP user could drop this in - like @dave if he chose to - could drop on to his own site - but t(more importantly) the folks at Wordpress could also do this as part of their standard install?

@JohnPhilpin anyone that could edit there functions.php or create a plugin. Do not think you can do that on WordPress.com caveat, I am very much an amateur, there may be many better ways.

@JohnPhilpin – it’s not hard to fix. ;-)