[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12902: Ticking the boxes for Twenty Ten: Some areas for improvement

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#12902: Ticking the boxes for Twenty Ten:  Some areas for improvement
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 Reporter:  demetris     |       Owner:     
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  3.0
Component:  Themes       |     Version:  3.0
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:     
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Comment(by johnonolan):

 Replying to [comment:11 Otto42]:
 > Replying to [comment:10 westi]:
 > > I disagree - it reduces the repeating of similar code and at the same
 time makes it easy for a child theme to override the loop in a specific
 case.
 >
 > We have things like category-slug.php and search.php templates for a
 reason. Using is_category() for things that should be in separate
 templates is silly.

 +1, otherwise we might as well run an entire theme from index.php[[BR]]
 [[BR]]
 index.php / archive.php / category.php are pretty much all identical now:
 getheader, getloop, getsidebar, getfooter - they even have (almost all)
 the same divs in between.

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