Problem with title clearing on Dashboard update - Meta Box

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March 23, 2021 at 11:33 PM #26636

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Hi,

I'm having essentially the same issue as with this topic - https://support.metabox.io/topic/titel-of-post-is-removed-after-updating-the-post/

The solution worked fine for when the form is used in the frontend but in the CPT edit screen it still clears the title when I update. I've created the text field with id post_title and when I let it remain visible I can see that it doesn't populate in the backend dashboard and I'm assuming that's why it clears the title on update.

I think from the other topic that I need to have the attribute post_id='current' but as the Dashboard isn't using the shortcode for display I'm not sure how to apply this (assuming that will work in the Dashboard as well).

Thanks.
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March 24, 2021 at 10:27 AM #26651
Long Nguyen
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Hi Martin,

The custom field with the ID post_title only works on the frontend (just a trick). On the backend, WordPress has the main field (pre-built) post_title so it does not show the custom field with the same ID.

You can also follow this solution to only use the custom field and remove the main field Post Title https://docs.metabox.io/save-wysiwyg-content-post-content/.

Add this code to the file functions.php or use the plugin Code Snippets.
```
add_action( 'init', function () {
    remove_post_type_support( 'post', 'title' );
} );
```
March 26, 2021 at 6:10 AM #26704

Martin
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That helped a lot. Thanks.

I managed to use this information to extend things a little and generate an automated title based on other fields in the CPT.
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