[wp-hackers] Combined template editor

Wed Nov 3 04:04:07 UTC 2004

Matt,

This sounds really good.  Giving the average user the ability to create a
complete HTML template and then upload it as one file is a great boon for folks
with design skills but no real understanding of PHP.  

That said, I see one potential problem.  I assume the comment tags are meant
mark the beginning/end of a file to be created by the back end.  Some less tech
savvy users will not understand this.  So, there will need to be an error
checker that throws back a specific error message (perhaps with a link to an
explanatory FAQ) to the user if the comments are not present or ill-formated. 
Else, we'll get a lot of push back.

Does that make sense?

Doug

Quoting Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com>:

> What if on the backend we transparently included the proper header and 
> footer files when editing through the WP interface. For example, a 
> template like:
> 
> <?php include header ?>
> content stuff...
> <?php include footer ?>
> 
> Could be changed to
> 
> <head>
> ...
> <body>
> <!-- end wp-header.php -->
> ...content stuff
> <!-- begin wp-footer.php -->
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> When we edit it. On save we can write it out to the three separete files 
> again. It could be completely transparant to most users that things are 
> in different files.
> 
> Thoughts? Code?
> 
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