Untitled short form posts

Using Ghost
1

What’s the best way to add support for untitled posts. Like one would normally add to Twitter or LinkedIn

2

You could edit your template so it doesn’t show post titles, and then just leave the title of your short posts blank?

3

The main challenge is that the {{title}} is used to generate the slug…

If you leave it blank Ghost auto-fills with (Untitled) - I tried ... and it ends up with a slug of post-2 etc.

I like @woubuc suggestions - why not set up as a collection in routes.yaml (Note I havent tested the #tweet tag handling, just inferred if from the docs)

routes:
  /tweets/:
    controller: channel
    template: custom-tweets
    filter: primary_tag:hash-tweet
    data: tag.hash-tweet      
  
collections:
  /tweet/:
    permalink: /tweet/{slug}/
    template:  custom-tweet
    filter: primary_tag:hash-tweet
  /:
    permalink: /{slug}/
    template:  index

You would then need to set up the two custom templates:

  • custom-tweets.hbs - which you should clone from index.hbs and then tweak
  • custom-tweet.hbs - which you should clone from post.hbs and then tweak

This is almost something that you might want to ask the Casper maintainers to add to the default theme :pray: