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
