Questions To Title or Not to Title

To Title or Not to Title

I found something intriguing: Some of the Blot templates render the title of a blog entry (as you can set it in the metadata) nicely as a heading, others don't do so. For example Isola renders it, but Magazine doesn't.

So for Magazine you would need to repeat the title as na explicit Markdown heading. This might be desirable — or not so.

In any case the inconsistency makes it hard to switch between templates. So my question now is: What's the standard here? Is there even a wider standard beyond Blot?

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This is basically a distinction between how templates handle a metadata title, and a title tag (e.g. a <h1> or # heading) in the post itself.

Sometimes people want to be able to set the metadata title when the post appears in the index or archive, without the title appearing on the permalink page. This is especially true for photo posts.

I understand it's confusing though, and should probably standardise this for the non-photo templates. You can adjust this yourself if you fork your template and add the following to your template's entry.html file inside the {{#entry}}...{{/entry}} block:

{{^titleTag}}
<h1>{{title}}</h1>
{{/titleTag}}

This code basically says, if there is no title tag, please insert the metadata title.