Hello - I've noticed that there is a lot of discussion on how to manage unique or site specific titles to blocks. Feature requests range from hiding block titles for certain roles, hiding them all together, altering exsiting block titles, etc... Simply search for "block title" and you'll find a plethora of problems and goals that site admins are trying to achieve with creating unique titles.

It struck me - and strike me if I'm repeating something here, but I couldn't find it - that the answer might be a rather simple addition to the block module to "administer block titles". It might be something as simple as adding a "block titles" tab at the top of the /admin/block page. This page would simply generate a form with the existing list of all blocks available (whether in use or not), indicate if that block is in use currently, and provide a form field to enter a unique title for that block.

It could probably look basically like the Book Admin page (eg /admin/node/book/#). I assume it would be simplest to store the custom block titles as a variable in the variables table. On output of the block title - simple consult the variables title for a unique title if it exists and use that.

This way - blocks can be exported by modules using a default block title as specified by the author - then site admins would have the flexibility to easily override block titles.

It would be nice to allow HTML, CSS, or other similar entities into the custom block titles. Then users could use Images, Flash, JS, or other simple means to style and display custom titles.

Also might be nice to be able to expand upon this to allow custom titles by roll, or maybe page context. I know this gets a LOT more complicated, but could provide an amazing step forward in title mangement ... which would be nice considering the slow decline of functionality and control of the block titles. I know that 4.7x now allows a unique, non-unique, or blank Title with the introduction of the Title and Description fields ... but these only apply to custom blocks, not system or module generated blocks.

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moshe weitzman’s picture

Priority: Critical » Minor
killes@www.drop.org’s picture

Version: 4.7.0-beta4 » x.y.z

moving

LAsan’s picture

Version: x.y.z » 7.x-dev

moving

mr.baileys’s picture

Version: 7.x-dev » 8.x-dev

moving

stevector’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)
David_Rothstein’s picture

Status: Closed (duplicate) » Closed (fixed)

Drupal core already allows you to override the title of any block via the UI, so I'm pretty sure this feature request (or at least 95% of it) is outdated...