On Jul 7, 2006, at 12:34 AM, Scott Laird wrote: A fifth item that I have already implemented is a short_title field
for the contents table, along with a one line change to the
appropriate admin page.
I'm not sure if this is generally useful or not. I'd like to avoid adding non-metaweb API fields where we can, although I have a few of my own that will probably go into 4.1 if I can keep them from being hideously ugly. What's the point of having a title that's too long to display?
Well, most titles can be meaningfully abridged. For example, a title like "The Extremes of Good and Evil" is not unduly long, but will almost always wrap in a recent comments sidebar that is formatted: <author>: <article name>. So that abridging it to "Extremes of Good & Evil" or even just "Extremes" for that kind of display is useful. Another example would be "Movie Review: The Life Aquatic" which could be meaningfully abridged to "Life Aquatic," though there is good reason for maintaining a longer title for the main article. Basically, the title of a post is something that should be informative in its own right, but the entry in the sidebar need do nothing more than simply refer to that title. Thus, it's appropriate to consider them two separate entities.
When I used a wordpress blog, I just used the "excerpt" field for this purpose, because there was no known use for the field as far as I could determine. I got several inquiries about how I managed to maintain two different titles for dispaly in the recent comments section (and the most commented articles section), and Be-Revolution supports this as a standard feature, so I'm fairly sure that there are those who would use it.
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