Title: [Plugin: Auto Post Title] changing permalink
Last modified: August 20, 2016

---

# [Plugin: Auto Post Title] changing permalink

 *  Resolved [thatwastaxing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thatwastaxing/)
 * (@thatwastaxing)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-auto-post-title-changing-permalink/)
 * I’m using your plugin to display users’ names in the title field automatically
   in a custom post type, using the [author] code.
 * I’ve removed support for a title field in the custom post type to prevent users
   from typing in anything there at all.
 * This works well but the permalink generated is “[http://localhost/testsite/testcpt/auto-draft/&#8221](http://localhost/testsite/testcpt/auto-draft/&#8221);
 * I’d like it to be “[http://localhost/testsite/testcpt/display-name/&#8221](http://localhost/testsite/testcpt/display-name/&#8221);
 * Can I do that with your plugin?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-post-title/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-post-title/)

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

 *  Plugin Author [ThoughtLab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thoughtlabllc/)
 * (@thoughtlabllc)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-auto-post-title-changing-permalink/#post-2210896)
 * You should be able to open up the “Screen Options” at the top of the edit page
   and check the box that says “Slug.” You should be able to type in the slug for
   your custom post in that box. Please let me know if that doesn’t work.
 *  Thread Starter [thatwastaxing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thatwastaxing/)
 * (@thatwastaxing)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-auto-post-title-changing-permalink/#post-2210931)
 * Hi. Yes, I’m able to change the slug that way but what I’m after is a way to 
   change it from saying “auto-draft-x” and taking the value of [author].
 * Looking at my database, all the records have a value of “auto-draft” rather than“
   publish” (except for Hello World! and Sample Page, of course).
 * Perhaps this is beyond the scope of your plugin and something I should be investigating
   in WP itself?
 *  Plugin Author [ThoughtLab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thoughtlabllc/)
 * (@thoughtlabllc)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-auto-post-title-changing-permalink/#post-2210932)
 * We could set the slug dynamically with the title, but that would cause problems
   with permalinks and SEO. If anything changed, then the URL would become obsolete.
   If you set the slug yourself, then you can set it to whatever you want, and it
   will work as long as you don’t change the slug.
 *  Thread Starter [thatwastaxing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thatwastaxing/)
 * (@thatwastaxing)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-auto-post-title-changing-permalink/#post-2210958)
 * Thanks for looking into this.
 * It seems that publishing without a title (custom post types) is indeed a WP limitation
   and the solution is to pre-populate the title field before saving so that it 
   is set.
 *  [Justin Sternberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jtsternberg/)
 * (@jtsternberg)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-auto-post-title-changing-permalink/#post-2211165)
 * Did you figure out the best way to pre-populate the title field?

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

The topic ‘[Plugin: Auto Post Title] changing permalink’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/auto-post-title.svg)
 * [Auto Post Title](https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-post-title/)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/auto-post-title/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/auto-post-title/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/auto-post-title/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/auto-post-title/reviews/)

 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Justin Sternberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jtsternberg/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-auto-post-title-changing-permalink/#post-2211165)
 * Status: resolved