So the new menu system in WordPress actually supports this. If you have a page titled "About Johann Sebastian Bach" you can add it to a menu and change the title to "About".
Originally I wasn't a fan of the database structure of menus but I can see how it has advantages now. For example a page can appear in four different menus with four different titles. I can see the advantage of adding another field to posts for an alternative title (I've done it myself in the past using post meta data), but thinking about it I'd imagine the menu system would cover the majority of situations where it's useful. Let's see what people think. John On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Gavin Pearce <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > > Posted this at WP-Hackers for you, as I'm fairly interested in the > answer myself. > A better discussion to have there. > > Gav > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John > Asbacher > Sent: 18 November 2010 03:24 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [wp-testers] Page Titles, Page Links, Page Permalinks > > Something that has always irked me about wordpress is how a Page Title > is also the Page Link. > > Does it make sense for Wordpress to have the three items > Page Titles, > Page Links, > Page Permalinks > > OR > > Page Title > Page Permalink > Name of Page Permalink > > Instead of just the two > Page Links/Titles, > Page Permalinks > > > For example you might want to keep the link (as it would appear in the > menu) nice and short to > "About" > > Then when you click on the link "About" I would like the page title to > be editable instead of just inheriting About, to be something like > "About Johann Sebastian Bach" > > Currently I do change most if not all of my sites to do this via hiding, > > adding code etc. > I can't believe that I am the only one doing this. > > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *John Asbacher* Inform Productions v 604 734-3447 > Video & Multi-Media Productions *c 604 721-7994* > 3773 Yukon St. Vancouver, B.C. V5Y 3S3 Canada > *[email protected]* --- http://www.shootedit.com > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
