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1. illis
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm sure there's a plugin or setting for this, but I just can't find it:
   How do you require the authors to enter a title for a post?

   I'm getting a lot of posts with no title.

2. Mr. Shiv
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have the same problem. It's odd that there's no setting or plug-in available to prevent it. Would love to hear of a solution.

3. Mr. Shiv
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   If anyone's still interested, I was able to add this feature.

   require-title.js (put in your theme directory)

   jQuery(document).ready(function($){
   	$('#post').submit(function(event){
   		var title = $('#title').val();
   		if( title.length == 0 || title.replace(/\s/g,'').length == 0 ){
   			event.preventDefault();
   			$('div#notice').remove();
   			$("<div id='notice' class='error below-h2'><p>A title is required for all updates.</p></div>").insertAfter('h2');
   			alert("A title is required for all updates");
   			$('#title').focus();
   			$('#ajax-loading').hide();
   			$('#publish').removeClass('button-primary-disabled');
   		}
   	});
   });

   (I'm sure this javascript could be written more elegantly.) Then, add this to your theme's functions.php:

   // Require post title
   if ( is_admin() ) { wp_enqueue_script('require-post-title', get_bloginfo('template_directory') . '/require-title.js'); }

   this will pop up an alert box and put a red box at the top of the new/edit post form if the title is left blank.

4. maorb
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I tried your code, but still can publish un-titled posts.. Any ideas?
   Thanks

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