[wp-hackers] Static content plugin

[Ryan Boren]

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 20:43, Jason wrote:
> Ryan Boren wrote:
> 
> >I agree, although I'd like to work out some nomenclature.  We have
> >"static" posts and "hidden" categories going around.  I think these all
> >boil down to being "standalone".  That is, exclude me from the regular
> >lists, I'll do my own thing.  This is simply an "exclude me" flag.  If
> >we integrate this, I'd like to look at the big picture of what people
> >are doing with static and hidden and see where the common ground and
> >terminology lies.  I think most of these boil down to "standalone", but
> >I have looked all of the related plugins and hacks yet.
> >
> >Ryan
> >  
> >
> I see what you mean about finding the common ground. It seems to me post 
> status might be the direction to go for some of these things, as opposed 
> to hidden categories. Having "static" and "sticky" as choices for status 
> would allow people to do a lot of things, like have posts only show up 
> when linked to directly (static) or always stay on top (sticky) while 
> still being able to use categories the way they always have. That being 
> said, I think there may still be a reason to have "hidden" categories, 
> whatever that reason may be.
> 
> Post status makes sense to me because each of these are (as far as I can 
> see) mutually exclusive. If it's a draft nobody can see it, if it's 
> published it shows up normally, if it's sticky it shows up on top, and 
> if it's static it doesn't show up unless you specifically link to it. It 
> also seems to me that this way we wouldn't be misusing categories: if a 
> post is sticky, that's a property of the post, not a classification.

Yeah, I like post_status myself.  As you say, there might still be a
need for hidden categories.  If we do both, I'm wondering if we'd like
to adopt a consist terminology between the two, such as standalone, or
just go with static and hidden.  I'm really not too fond of static,
since it can be confused with real static content, but I'm not sure that
standalone is any more clear.  Anyway, it seems like standalone, static,
and hidden are all intending the same thing.  I'm just trying to pin
down usages.

Ryan