Do not require a 'title' field

Created on 17 October 2014, over 9 years ago
Updated 30 January 2023, over 1 year ago

Problem/Motivation

When creating custom content types, the "Title" field is manditory. This leads to akward work-arounds for content types that do not need a 'title' / 'short text' field. One example would be modeling people:

person { first_name, last_name } // no title necessary

Please provide a means by which we can create new content types through the UI without a mandatory title field (i.e. plain text field).

Some workarounds for the node title requirement, which indicate a longstanding, underlying usability issue, include:

Proposed resolution

Workaround - hide the title field on the form: admin/structure/types/manage/custom_content_type/form-display
Setting the title field to hidden will let you create nodes without the title.

✨ Feature request
Status

Needs work

Version

10.1 ✨

Component
Node systemΒ  β†’

Last updated about 7 hours ago

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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States brylie

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