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Most guides I see quickly skip over the single tag option.

In most cases I want just the title tag off a web blog. And it seems crazy to disable all my other fields for efficiency or load up all my entries to then take the first one’s title.

Is there a way I can get the title via a single tag?

Thanks,

(ExpressionEngine 1.6.9)

Can you skip over what doesn’t exist? 😉

There is no native single-tag to return titles for an entry. Seems like I’ve seen custom plugins to do this.

Otherwise if you are on a single entry page you can usually nest the entire page in one loop, re-using the title variable where needed.  There is also a limit parameter, or if EE sees an entry id or url_title in the url it will only retrieve that entry (vs. getting all of them and then only use the first).

Can you skip over what doesn’t exist? 😉

There is no native single-tag to return titles for an entry. Seems like I’ve seen custom plugins to do this.

Otherwise if you are on a single entry page you can usually nest the entire page in one loop, re-using the title variable where needed.  There is also a limit parameter, or if EE sees an entry id or url_title in the url it will only retrieve that entry (vs. getting all of them and then only use the first).

Haha, Thanks.

I was tempted to nest the entire page in one loop, but was not sure keeping the loop open for that length of time was wise. In truth I am unsure of best pratices with EE/Code Igniter. I usually try and keep to the snap-shut approach in regard to database requests - Get in quick, store and get out quicker.

Yep I am using the limit=1 and entry_id in come cases. Am I best to use disable=“field 1|field 2…”?

Thanks for your reply,

I’m not big on the phrase “best practices” - but that’s another post altogether. Use the output profiler and template debugger to experiment to find the best approach to your design on your server.

You can’t disable individual fields.  You can disable “custom_fields” (of which title isn’t one).  Check the docs there for all the things you can disable on a weblog:entries tag.

Yes, that is what provoked me to ask about the single tag and where I did see “The disable= parameter allows you to turn off aspects of the tag that you might not be using in order to improve performance.”

Thanks, I suppose that does answer my original post.

Hey jazmel,

Awesome! Glad to see that Mike was able to help!

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,