WordPress allows empty post titles and post bodies on PUBLISH

[mike503]

See this post:
​http://michaelshadle.com/2007/07/03/why-does-wordpress-allow-empty-post-titles-and-bodies-on-publish/

and this thread:
​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/124512

Basically, drafts should be allowed to have empty portions, but on publish, it should alert the user/not allow them to publish. The code is actually in post.php to check, but it is ANDed not ORed, whereas it should be ORed for publish.

[mike503]

there could always be a checkbox or WP setting to allow empty titles or not. that would be another way around it.

[matt]

There is nothing wrong with either. People might have the content in a page template instead of the DB. They might be blogging in a way that doesn't use titles. Etc.

If you think adding an option would be an acceptable solution to a problem like this, you should check out a books called Designing the Obvious, Paradox of Choice, and Joel on Software.