Allow customized Reading Page subtitles

[dchan]

Title:
Allow customized Reading Page subtitles

Area:
journal customization

Summary:
Right now you can customize your journal title, journal subtitle, and reading page title through the customize journal page. I propose adding a 4th option, to customize a subtitle on your reading page.

Description:
Right now, when you have custom titles set for your journal, on most pages it will display [Journal Title]: [Journal Subtitle] (or however the layout chooses to format it) in the header section. However, on your reading page, if you have a custom title set, it displays [Reading Page Title]: [Journal Subtitle]. This has always struck me as quite silly because oftentimes my journal subtitle has nothing whatsoever to do with the title of my friends page. I propose adding a new property, $friends_subtitle, so that it is possible to format the header of the friends page header so that it appears [Reading Page Title]: [Reading Page Subtitle] (again, contingent on how the layout formats the header). If no value is specified for $friends_subtitle, the subtitle on the reading page would be blank.

I am not a developer, but I believe this would be relatively easy to implement. I managed to make a workaround hack to display a hard-encoded line of text as a subtitle on my friends page by adding about 3 lines of code (not including the code I needed to add to get subtitles to show up at all in Transmogrified) to my custom definitions to get a custom reading page subtitle. (Compare the title & subtitle on http://dchan.dreamwidth.org and http://dchan.dreamwidth.org/read for an example of how this would work.) These lines of code could be modified at the Core stylesheet level, and would not need to be individually modified for each layout. You would also only need to add one value to the database for each user (I think--I don't know all that much about databases), so it shouldn't be all that much of an extra burden on the servers either.

Poll #4517 Allow customized Reading Page subtitles

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Should be implemented as-is.
49 (77.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
14 (22.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[ursamajor]

Yes, please! Two different pages; subtitle should be able to be different in both. Never made sense to me the other way, just "this is how things are."

[arethinn]

if you have a custom title set, it displays [Reading Page Title]: [Journal Subtitle]. This has always struck me as quite silly

*affects a dumb look* Whatever do you mean? What's silly about

villainy hive 24
may the stars light my way

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;) I like this idea.

[azurelunatic]

Indeed!

My old LJ is subtitled "Nearly a prosthetic memory"; the friends page is "Being an 'us' for once (instead of a 'them')".

[feathertail]

I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate. But as you may have guessed, I'm all in favor of it. >.>b