I created a weblog to hold press releases for a client website. 

As Murphy’s law would have it, one of the articles has a title that is 112 characters, but the title field apparenly only allows 100 characters.

Is there a way to extend the lenght of this field?  I tried to add a title field to the custom field group, but the original title field is not removed.  I would like to avoid creating a confusing interface.

Thanks!
-Bob

Bob, you can make longer titles, but you’d still need to keep the original title field. You’d have some sort of code to check for the longer custom field and use that instead of {title}.

Example:

Make sense?

I guess that will work. My main concern is that with this is if they wanted to be able to sort by title, the client would need to enter the title twice, first the full title for display and then the truncated tittle to ensure proper sorting.

(Which would have problems too if there were articles with names like “My long article name yada yada,...... part 1:” and then there was a part 2.)

A bit of a rig job, but it is Friday and I need to get ‘er done!

If you could consider making this field length longer and/or settable in the future, I think it would be a good thing.

Thanks!
-Bob

Trust me, it’s easier than setting the width to something like 140 or whatever, and changing out all the places that had 100 in them.

Closing thread…