Difficult to select untitled pages in the parent selection box

[Latz]

If you've created a page with no title and want to write another page with the first page (with no title) as the parent page you only find an empty line in the parent selection box. (image 1)

This will definitely become a problem if you have more than one page without a title because there is nothing that allows you to distinguish the various pages in the parent selection box. (image 2)

I've got two solution proposals:
a) Add a checkbox "Hide title"
b) Add an input text field "Internal name" when WordPress detects an empty title while creating the slug.

I'd prefer a).

I marked this ticket as "defect" instead of "enhancement" since it keeps me from using WordPress the way I want to use it.

[johnbillion]

I think both of the proposed solutions fall out of scope for core. Publishing pages without titles is exceptionally uncommon, and support for it depends very much on the theme.

The solution would be to display the post ID in the dropdown if the title is empty (e.g. #123).

[Latz]

You're right John, displaying the ID would be the best solution. Maybe the ID should be enclosed by parentheses to point out that it's not the actual title or that, in an edge case, the user himself uses titles like #123.

My proposals better fit in a plugin which you can install if you use empty page titles a lot.

[SergeyBiryukov]

27218.patch​ displays #123 (no title), which is consistent with [24560].

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 27360:

Display empty-titled pages properly in Walker_PageDropdown, like we do in Walker_Page.

fixes #27218.