Is there any way to disable title？

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The discussion Is there any way to disable title？ revolves around Haoliang’s question about creating posts without titles in Discourse, similar to Twitter. NateDhaliwal suggests it’s not possible to post topics without a title. Haoliang asks if a plugin could be used to achieve this. CocoQuark points out that hiding titles with CSS is an option, but seems unconventional. Haoliang clarifies the desire to have two posting methods: Titled topics and Untitled topics, similar to Twitter posts, and expresses concerns about importing Twitter data with automatically assigned titles. pfaffman questions what would be displayed in a topic list if titles are hidden and proposes putting the same content in the topic title and the body of the OP.

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Hello experts,

I have crawled some posts from Twitter using a web scraper. We consider these as posts, but Discourse’s mechanism requires a title for each post. I would like to ask if there is a way to create posts without a title or if there is a method to hide the title display entirely, as I may want to post something without a title.

Are there any existing Twitter-like theme components available? Or any other methods to fulfill my requirements?

Thank you!

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No, I don’t think you can post topics without a title.

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via a plugin?

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I assume you mean topic, not post?

You can hide what you want with CSS. How to do that depends on what you want to do exactly, because hiding titles on Discourse seems a weird idea :smile:

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Hello,coco

I would like to separate my posting methods into two types:

  1. Titled topics: These are longer posts, including my opinions, a clear title, and all necessary elements.
  2. Untitled topics: Similar to Twitter, I want to be able to post content without a title, such as simple statements like “The weather is great today,” which may not have much specific meaning. For these posts, I want to allow them to be published without a title.

Additionally, the data I’ve scraped from Twitter consists entirely of content without titles. When I import these posts into my forum via the API, they are automatically assigned strange and irrelevant titles, which feels very unnatural.

I’m wondering if there’s a way to hide the titles of these posts directly, allowing me to display Twitter-style posts without requiring a title.

Thank you!

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What do you propose would be displayed in a topic list?

I think what you want to do is to put the same content in the topic title and the body of the OP (truncated if it’s longer than 255 characters).