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By: essenmitsosse

essenmitsosse — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:03:48 +0000

I just tried it today and noticed, that it’s really working to put in the normal title. I don’t know why I thought, it wouldn’t work.

By: Kari Pätilä

Kari Pätilä — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:13:43 +0000

The reasoning behind the plugin was that I didn’t want to touch the original titles, just alter them on the fly. Otherwise you might run into problems.

By: Stef Pause

Stef Pause — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:08:32 +0000

I tried to argue for this ages back and was rebutted:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1371

I still think Otto42 was fundamentally wrong, in that he concluded that any and all HTML in titles would be purely presentation, while what I was trying to assert, and continue to, is that the likes of em and code are actually semantic in nature and should be allowed in titles. But I didn’t have time to debate with a developer who wasn’t open to reason and obviously wasn’t going to change his mind, so I gave up.

The fact that plugins have sprung up shows there’s still a desire for it, but I don’t think it’ll ever gain official integration into the WordPress core. Ah well!

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:08:12 +0000

It might be smarter (more future-compatible, and more semantic) to put the word “of” in span tags instead; something like:

of

I also have used em tags in the title field without problem, though usually for actual emphasis or titles of works.

By: Blake Imeson

Blake Imeson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:36:07 +0000

I know I have seen a plugin somewhere that makes the post titles editable with a WYSIWYG…

I googled it and looked on the Extend db, to no avail. This was the closest I found

By: Kari Pätilä

Kari Pätilä — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:15:23 +0000

@Yael K. Miller
Hadn’t taken that into account, and already had to push one bug fix.

@Esben Thomsen
How would you like to be able to input the HTML?

By: Michael Kozakewich

Michael Kozakewich — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:58:27 +0000

I have no clue if there’s just something different with my install, but I’ve never had problems with HTML in the title. It’ll show the escaped title in the wp-admin, but the actual post will show the styled content. I can’t find anything in the settings.

When you tried, would it just show “STYLING of WORDPRESS?”

Maybe it has something to do with my database? Maybe I forgot to escape things?

By: essenmitsosse

essenmitsosse — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:29:25 +0000

The problem why this naturally don’t work is, that html doesn’t work for the title in the head. You would need one title with and one without html. Or at least I guess thats the original reason …

By: john

john — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:00:42 +0000

Esben:
I’m sure Kari could get that plugin to fry eggs and make coffee. Just give him a few minutes :)