[theme-reviewers] Option to create child theme from theme option

[Chip Bennett]

And I see simple-to-complex query modification executed entirely via a
pre_get_posts callback, rendering output that is completely Theme-agnostic.
In other words: still Plugin territory. Oh, wait:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/cbnet-different-posts-per-page/

(Which is actually an extremely basic example, that can be extended in an
infinite number of creative ways.)


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:03 PM, emin ozlem <eminozlem at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Basically the user will select how they want the posts to be displayed on
> > that particular page lets say from select boxes or appropriate inputs
> like
> > so;
> >
> > I want to create a page template that displays <input>30</input> posts
> from
> > <select> Uncategorized | Other </select> category, ordered by <select>
> ID |
> > date </select>  etc. you get the idea.
> >
> > Essentially it'll just save the wanted query params in an option, and
> load
> > them in "page.php" if chosen. Thats about it. No different than manually
> > creating page-custom.php and writing in the query params by manually.
> >
> > Does that sound OK ? It'd make it whole lot easier, and would save the
> > trouble of updating every page-* template file one by one, in case of a
> > markup change.
>
> Okay, the question I would have in such a case is a bit deeper though:
> Why would that be a Page Template?
>
> For your particular example, you're saying X posts from a category
> sorted by whatever, but that kinda describes a category-archive page,
> no?
>
> I mean, I can totally see having special code somewhere to have
> different category archives behave differently. But I probably
> wouldn't do it as a "Page Template", because, well, Page Templates are
> for Pages. Pages don't show Posts.
>
> Too often I see people misuse Page Templates in particular. Sure,
> they're easy, but really things like archives are already built in.
> It's simpler to me to properly use the template hierarchy, and then,
> if desired, add a rewrite rule to change the URL you want to point to
> the category archive you want it to point to.
>
> See? It's all about the specific details.
>
> -Otto
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