Lately, when I type up a blog entry, I've been getting an error message "Required field must not be blank". Through trial and error, I've determined that the required field is the title field. In other words, Blogger has made post titles mandatory.
Problem: Blogger also will not permit us to save posts unless we have typed something in the title field. Which is problematic, because I like to write my titles last, after the whole post is composed. Yesterday I started writing a good post that required some precise choice of language and some careful composition. I didn't finish it last night (not unusual for more mindful posts) so I clicked Save. I got a "This page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave - data you have entered may not be saved" error, but I knew I'd just clicked save so I told it to go ahead and navigate away. And then, this morning, my careful work was all gone!
Dear Blogger: If you're going to require titles to post (which strikes me as completely unnecessary, BTW), there's no need to require a title to save a draft. The draft is, by definition, not finished. It's okay if it doesn't have all the required elements. In fact, it will save you a small amount of storage space if you don't force people to fill out a field they don't need to fill out just yet.
Edited to add: I've just discovered that the post body field is not a required field, just the post title. That's a wee bit ridiculous...
2 comments:
Hmm, I haven't seen this yet. I don't usually title drafts either. But a draft title - like one word, or even one character, as a placeholder - would be pretty simple to get used to.
But yeah, it's silly.
Thank you for posting this. I've spent an hour or more just trying to figure out what the issue is!
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