title: blank interacts badly with jekyll-feed, etc.

[sim642]

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Bug description

If title: blank is used, then RSS feed from jekyll-feed literally has "blank" as title.

How to reproduce the bug

See https://alshedivat.github.io/al-folio/feed.xml.

al-folio's default behavior is to explicitly construct a different title for the header with title: blank:

al-folio/_config.yml

Line 5 in 807629d

title: blank # the website title (if blank, full name will be used instead)

But no other jekyll plugin knows this and literally uses "blank" as the title.

Error messages and logs

No response

What operating system are you using?

Linux, Not applicable (e.g. you're using GitHub Pages or other hosting)

Where are you seeing the problem on?

Running locally without Docker, Deployed site

More info

No response

[george-gca]

The only solution to this that I can think of would be to manually set the title. Do you have any suggestion?

[sim642]

I don't have a solution. The current blank is special because it also makes the first name bold, which a manually set title wouldn't. Maybe HTML is allowed in the title field, but I'm also not sure if plugins like jekyll-feed like that either.

[george-gca]

How does the plugins handle if the title is empty?

[sim642]

I haven't checked, but what's for sure is that they won't compose the various name component fields like al-folio does for the header and <title>.

jekyll-feed also supports the name field as an alternative, so it might be possible to work around with name: Full Name also added to the configuration.
Not sure if any other plugins also use the title field or offer such alternatives.

[george-gca]

Can you check also how the plugins handle if the title have html, like <strong>? If the plugin handles well, switching to use html might be a solution.