@jack depends on the generator. My archive template goes “if title is blank, strip tags from content, grab first 180 words”
@jack I set the date and time as a post title if I don’t set one. When I get around to doing an archive page I will probably exclude them from it so it becomes an article archive.
@oyam This is how I’d do it. I was hoping it wouldn’t require any WordPress jiggery pokery but no such luck as far as I can tell.
@tgray I did that as part of my “main” blog, which is Hugo, for a while. Some days it seems like a great idea but then I fall for the ease of WordPress and around it goes.
@jack I’d consider that a bug in whichever theme you’re using, since that display behavior is defined by the theme.
Depending on how the theme’s archive page works, it might be fairly simple to fix (e.g., TwentyFifteen’s archive.php
delegates the display of posts in the archive to content-
postformat.php
files, so if all your titleless posts are say, status
format, you could add a content-status.php
that does the right thing).
My first step would still be to report it as a bug to the theme’s author, though. I’d think listing titleless posts on archive page should, well, display something that lets you access the post :-P