On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Dave, reading your 2009 writeup on the Fauxcoly theme (
> http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/more_about_the_theme) -- you list
> 4 standard actions besides custom: weblog, permalink, search, tagsindex,
> and have constructed Fauxcoly to be able to demonstrate each of those 4.


> Question: why don't we have a standard action to display entries belonging
> to a certain category?  Is it because categories can be listed in a more
> traditional way or you just didn't have time to get to it when creating
> Fauxcoly?  I put in JIRA items 2021 and 2022 to add categories to gaurav
> and fauxcoly, I don't know if to get it done properly we could or should
> create a new action for it or if that would be redundant.
>

Because the category view is provided by the Weblog action. The "pagers"
and paging controls know about categories so a category view is easy to
achieve within a weblog action template.

Sometimes introducing a new action can result in simpler code within each
weblog template (eliminating some if-then logic) but somethings adding a
new action just means more duplication of template code, and another
"action" for users to understand.

- Dave

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