Don't use (no title) in place of text from body of post in Posts list

[davewiner]

In the Posts list, if an item doesn't have a title, (no title) in place of the title isn't helpful, and makes it difficult when a page has lots of singular posts.

Suggested solution: Grab the first N chars of the body, or first sentence (easy with regex) or add a tool tip with the same text.

I write a lot of "singular" posts, ie posts without titles.

Happy to share JS code that works.

[davewiner]

Screen shot of Posts page with lots of (no title) entries.

[sabernhardt]

Duplicate of #65022.

I'm closing this to keep the discussion on one ticket.

For now, you could show any excerpt—manual or automated—for all posts in the list:

1. Go to Screen Options.
2. Select the Extended view.
3. Apply changes.

[sabernhardt]

Extended view shows excerpts for posts (the last post does not have an automated excerpt because it only has a Search block, no text)