Yesterday’s technical successes include figuring out a custom function for the_post_navigation links on posts to display six-word excerpts (plus ellipsis) for untitled posts, and a similar tweak to the wp-posted-today plugin; these join an earlier solve to do the same for the <title> tag. Also, I found a plugin that lets you perform text substitutions in strings in theme template files, which let me make a minor change to the comments-title element on posts, since I couldn’t figure out how to do the above untitled-posts hack for there. Closing it out, I managed to switch over my permalinks from %postname%/.html to %postname%/ without breaking old inbound links thanks to a RewriteRule in .htaccess.
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