pligg without story title

**ideas24h** · 12-03-2010, 07:59 AM

Hi,

I like only use Story description in my Pligg. How I cant remove Title?

Thanks.

**ChuckRoast** · 12-03-2010, 10:15 AM

It's most likely possible but your going to have a difficult time. You would need to make major core changes.

**Yankidank** · 12-03-2010, 10:53 AM

Actually it might not be that difficult. You could hide the title field from view and just secretly fill it with an auto-incrementing number. Perhaps that would be best achieved by figuring out a way to input the story ID number as the title.

**ChuckRoast** · 12-03-2010, 11:25 AM

Well, I originally thought of that but it might end up skewing search results?

**ideas24h** · 12-03-2010, 12:06 PM

Hi again. Thanks for your advice. The idea of hiding the title sounds quite good, but the problem is that i don't exactly know how to do it. Can you do me a favour and explaint it a bit? Thanks again.

**Yankidank** · 12-03-2010, 12:47 PM

Chuckroast brings up a good point. Pligg wouldn't know what to set the page titles to, which would kill your search engine results.

I haven't tested out the code below, but I suspect that it should work.

Find this in submit_step_2.tpl:

Code:

        <label>{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit2_Title#}: </label>{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit2_TitleInstruct#}<br/>
        <input type="text" id="title" class="text" name="title" value="{if $submit_title}{$submit_title}{else}{$submit_url_title}{/if}" size="60" maxlength="{$maxTitleLength}" />

Replace it with this:

Code:

<div style="display:none;"><label>{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit2_Title#}: </label>{#PLIGG_Visual_Submit2_TitleInstruct#}<br/>
        <input type="text" id="title" class="text" name="title" value="{$submit_id}" size="60" maxlength="{$maxTitleLength}" /></div>

That will hide the story title input field when submitting the story. You will need to then go in to link_summary.tpl and remove these lines to get rid of the title display:

Code:

            <h2>
            {checkActionsTpl location="tpl_pligg_story_title_start"}
            {if $use_title_as_link eq true}
                {if $url_short neq "http://" && $url_short neq "://"}
                    <a href="{$url}" {if $open_in_new_window eq true} target="_blank"{/if} {if $story_status neq "published"}rel="nofollow"{/if}>{$title_short}</a>
                {else}
                    <a href="{$story_url}" {if $open_in_new_window eq true} target="_blank"{/if}>{$title_short}</a>
                {/if}
             {else}
                {if $pagename eq "story" && $url_short neq "http://" && $url_short neq "://"}
                    <a href="{$url}" {if $open_in_new_window eq true} target="_blank"{/if} {if $story_status neq "published"}rel="nofollow"{/if}>{$title_short}</a>
                {else} 
                  <a href="{$story_url}">{$title_short}</a>
                {/if}
            {/if}
            {checkActionsTpl location="tpl_pligg_story_title_end"}
            </h2>

That's it for the basics. There are probably some other areas that will still show the title (ex. the Live page), but you will have to find all of those smaller examples and correct them on your own.