[Wordpress plugin] DateTitle – A plugin for automatic post titles

These days I seem to be writing very little code and I do that only if I need something and I am unable to find something similar already written. Recently I shifted my journal from LiveJournal to a self hosted WordPress install on my own site. I write in my journal fairly often though most of it is either private or friends only. I find it difficult to come up with a post title every time. Leaving the title blank kind of messes things up with WordPress so I started putting the current day and date as the post title – this keeps the URLs very nice and user friendly. After doing this a couple of times it struck me – Why not automate this using a plugin. A search revealed that the nearest plugin to my needs was SequenTitle automatically creates a sequentially numbered post title of your choosing if the title is left blank when the post is published.

Looking through the code I quickly realized what I wanted was very simple, about 30 mins of hacking and here you have the DateTitle plugin. Most of the code I borrowed from SequenTitle plugin mentioned above. Installation is like any other WordPress plugin – unzip and upload to the plugins folder, activate from the plugins page and you will get a DateTitle option in the settings menu…

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Download: http://sanisoft.com/downloads/datetitle.1.0.zip

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Published:: 6.30.09 / 10:43am

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Author:: Tarique Sani

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Ivan 12.30.09 / 8:55am

whoa… this is exactly what I really need for my phlog… thank you, Tarique!

Ivan 12.30.09 / 10:12am

just a simple suggestion, I change the wp_title_intercept function to:
... if($post->post_date) { $post->post_title = date($options['title'],strtotime($post->post_date)); } else { $post->post_title = date($options['title']); } ...

So, if you want to change an old post like mine, it will automagically change the title with the date from its post submit date.

Tarique Sani 12.30.09 / 12:28pm

Thanks, Good suggestion – Will add when I update the plugin

wordpress plugins 2.23.10 / 3:54am

Your blog is amazing, i first landed to another post but then get interested and thought, i will just look a little more arround to see what else i can find out about best plugins arround.

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