[wp-hackers] Page Templates vs Category Templates

[Mike Schinkel]

On Dec 3, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Haluk Karamete wrote:
> mike l interpreted this very question to summarize to others
> 
> 	The topic is essentially about being able to select *theme provided* layouts
> 	on a per category basis (similar to how you do for page templates -- and
> 	they could be the same ones) for people who are not up to creating/modifying
> 	themes.

From my experience I think what you'd find as soon as you got theme provided layouts for categories would be the need for category meta and some of the other things that are provided by Pages (Pages are implemented as posts where post_type='page'.) For example you'd probably find plugins that you'd want to apply but that wouldn't work because there was not post to apply to.  FWIW.

On Dec 3, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Charles Frees-Melvin wrote:
> In experience the core team digs their heels in the sand on changing the database unless absolutely necessary.

I'd say they don't dig their heels in the sand, it's more like they cast their legs in steel-reinforced concrete.  Just sayin... :-)

-Mike