How can I prevent posts with no title showing up in my query?

Question

How do I prevent posts with no title showing up in my query / loop ? ( I am doing aside, quote etc post-formats and I want to exclude title less posts from one particular loop)

I have nothing on this. I searched through WP_Query on this but I can't find anything, and when I try google everything is muddied with 'not display title stuff' etc. Is it possible?

Answer 1

Please find below a quick solution to your problem

1. first query for all empty titles
2. place the result in an array

3. query again for post__not_in see below sample code

   $query = new WP_Query('post_title=\'\'');
   $a_empty_titles = array();
    while($query->have_posts()){
        $query->the_post();
        array_push( $a_empty_titles ,$query->post->ID);
    }
    wp_reset_postdata();
    wp_reset_query();
    echo count($a_empty_titles);
    $query = new WP_Query( array( 'post__not_in' => $a_empty_titles ) );
    //your loop code here
    //reset query
    wp_reset_postdata();
    wp_reset_query();
    ?>