WordPress: Custom placeholder text for custom post type title input box #snippet #WordPress

wp_custom_title_placeholder_text.php

<?php

/* 
replacing the default "Enter title here" placeholder text in the title input box
with something more descriptive can be helpful for custom post types 

place this code in your theme's functions.php or relevant file

source: http://flashingcursor.com/wordpress/change-the-enter-title-here-text-in-wordpress-963
*/

function wpfstop_change_default_title( $title ){

    $screen = get_current_screen();

    if ( 'your_custom_post_type' == $screen->post_type ){
        $title = 'Your custom placeholder text';
    }

    return $title;
}

add_filter( 'enter_title_here', 'wpfstop_change_default_title' );

?>

good find. saved the day.

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks!

Perfect! Thanks for putting this up

Nice!! thanks, it helped me alot

Thanks for sharing! Nice solution.

Genius! Thanks!

Nice, thank you!

I owe you a beer. Or three.

I would like to propose a change to this, as to prevent any errors from being thrown. You should first check that the post type object is being set inside of $screen.

function wpfstop_change_default_title( $title ) {
    $screen = get_current_screen();
    if( isset( $screen->post_type ) ) {
        if ( 'your_custom_post_type' == $screen->post_type ) {
            $title = 'Your custom placeholder text';
        }
    }
    return $title;
}
add_filter( 'enter_title_here', 'wpfstop_change_default_title' );

Thnx a lot EvanHerman.. :) (Y)

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Thank you! This saved me tons of time

Here's one I adapted for the WP Editor placeholder: https://github.com/tripflex/wp-tinymce-placeholder