[wp-hackers] Mille viae ducunt homines per saecula index.php

[Daniel Fenn]

And adding to that de bugging become much harder

On 4/17/13, Brad Parbs <brad at bradparbs.com> wrote:
> What would you achieve with this?
>
> This basically creates a harder to maintain, harder to edit, and just a
> pain of a project.
>
> It's possible, and I've created themes that just use two files to create
> quick demos of plugins or code, but never an actual site.
>
> If you're at the point where you're checking for is_xxxxx_page, you
> basically are replacing the template system.
>
> Micky Hulse wrote:
>>
>> Based on this visual overview of the WP template hierarchy:
>>
>> <http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy#Visual_Overview>
>>
>> ... all roads appear to lead to index.php.
>>
>> Just curious, but has anyone built a theme, or knows of a free theme
>> in the wild, that has just one index.php file?
>>
>> Based on this info:
>>
>> <http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Basic_Templates>
>>
>> ... at a bare minimum, I'd need:
>>
>> * style.css
>> * index.php
>>
>> This got me thinking, couldn't I build a theme, one that accounted for
>> all of the various pages/views, using one index.php and several
>> template part includes?
>>
>> I can envision an index.php template that utilizes a PHP switch
>> statement to load the needed template parts.
>>
>> Seems plausible, though, I'd probably need the ability to say things
>> like:
>>
>> if (is_search_result_page) { ... }
>> if (is_archive_page) { ... }
>> if (is_XXXXXXX_page) { ... }
>>
>> Now, I've definitely been in situations where I've tried to cram too
>> much into a single template, so I can see why this would not be a good
>> idea. Just mostly curious to know if others have tried this, and
>> whether or not they'd recommend giving it a try.
>>
>> Thanks for listening!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Micky
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Regards,
Daniel Fenn