Nicer Wiki Titles (an extension to allow correctly capitalized and punctuated article titles)

The Problem with Wiki Titles

The EE Wiki Module displays article titles as taken directly from a URL segment (not from the database). As such, EE wikis often display titles incorrectly for a number of reasons:

• punctuation not allowed by EE’s URL functions
• capitalization, because EE interprets the display title directly from whatever is in the URL
• hyphens and underscores, whichever is set as the system’s default word-separator character

For example… say you have an article named

My Hyphenated-Word Article (with parentheses)

When you create that article, the URL becomes something like:

http://mysite.com/wiki/my-hyphenated-word-article-with-parentheses

When the Wiki Module generates a title to display, you get something like:

my hyphenated word article with parentheses

I’ve pulled out too many of my hairs dealing with this frustrating handling. So, I wrote this extension.

A Solution

With Nicer_Wiki_Titles active, when you create or rename page, the text from the “Rename” field is copied directly into the database as a ‘Nice Title’ and displayed in your wiki templates with a variable you select.

You can customize a bit using the three settings:

Tag to replace: Select the tag you wish to replace in your templates with a Nicer Title. (default: {nicer_title})

Use basic page title: If a Nicer Title is not registered, should the extension display the default title instead? (default: yes)

Fallback text: If a Nicer Title is not registered and you prefer the extension to not display the default title instead, you can specify fallback text to use instead. (default: blank)

note: For now, the extension only works in basic article templates. It will not work on special pages (including revision pages) or in title lists. I hope to add support for this soon.

Grab it now…

Get the extension - download RogEE Nicer Wiki Titles (zip)

Nicer Wiki Titles @ devot:ee - http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/nicer-wiki-titles/

Hg repo @ BitBucket - http://bitbucket.org/rogee/nicer_wiki_titles/

RogEE (my EE add-on homepage) - http://michaelrog.com/go/ee/