Default Selection of ‘post title’ (and not status update)

Any clue? Can somebody help?

I’m very curious to find out about this aswell… ??

Can somebody help?
zzzz ;(

Do you not mean make ‘Blog Post’ the default.

I’ve played around with the code (via a child theme) and tried to achieve this – ie Blog Post with the Post title box as well, with without success.

Anyone?

Yep! That’s precisely my qn.

Looks like this doesn’t have a straightforward solution.
To repost the qn,
I am looking to have ‘Blog Post’ as the default tab (currently the default tab is ‘Status update’).

Help appreciated

In this section of code from post-form.php its the selected section that makes something the default posting style:

<li><a id="status"<?php if ( $_GET['p'] == 'status' || !isset($_GET['p']) ) : ?> class="selected"<?php endif; ?> href="<?php echo site_url( '?p=status' ) ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Status Update', 'p2' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Status Update', 'p2' ) ?></a></li>

THIS SECTION sets it: || !isset($_GET['p'])

Just cut it and put it where you want the default to be. All of the tabs are right after that section of code.

In addition to seeroy’s comment, if you are making blog post the default entry and you want the post title field to be visible on pageload, find the postbox-type-post div inside post-form.php and change

<div id="postbox-type-post" class="post-input <?php if ( 'post' == p2_get_posting_type() ) echo ' selected'; ?>">

into

<div id="postbox-type-post" class="post-input <?php if ( 'post' == p2_get_posting_type() || !isset($_GET['p']) ) echo ' selected'; ?>">

@seeroy and @nobble THANKS a lot! Works perfectly.

PS. One day I hope I’l be so good at php that I can write a plugin things like this. I assume that being the ultimate solution so that the changes don’t disappear at future theme updates.

You could have just added this line to your js.php file >> p2_toggle_threads >> .ready():

jQuery('#post-types a#post').click();

Much cleaner this way.

shoot, I knew there was an easier way

@seeroy and @nobble THANKS a lot!

One question: I’ve made the Post Title the default section using @seeroy and @nobble advices. But there is a little problem: When i first enter the site I don’t see the text “Post Title” in the title bar. I can see the text only after I’ve clicked the title bar and then clicked the post bar. Can anyone help me?

UPDATE: With the latest version of P2, this has changed.

The function that controls the default post type is called p2_get_posting_type and it’s stored in the template-tags.php file. The default setup is:

function p2_get_posting_type() {
	$p = isset( $_GET['p'] ) ? $_GET['p'] : 'status';
	return $p;
}

If you’d like to change the default post type — from status to post, for example — just change “status” to “post”. The other options are “quote” (for the Citation form) and “link” for the Hyperlink form.

Cheers,
Scott
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Scott,

You’re correct on the new version, but the only issue here is that it doesn’t post the title then. It still posts it as if it were a status update, even though you had the option to enter the title, the title doesn’t show up on the blog. Are you seeing the same results? Did you find a fix for that?

Thanks,
Matt