[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20509: Theme idea - generic.php

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#20509: Theme idea - generic.php
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 Reporter:  johnjamesjacoby           |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request           |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Themes                    |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch dev-feedback  |
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Comment (by johnjamesjacoby):

 Replying to [comment:31 dd32]:
 > > Maybe we can have a fallback generic.php template in Core, like we
 have for sidebar.php.
 >
 > I have a feeling that would go against (my understanding of) the purpose
 of the original idea myself.
 >
 > The part of the problem that this is trying to solve is that you can't
 just include get_header() / get_sidebar() and get_footer() into a template
 file and expect the output to look like the theme, it needs to use the
 themes markup, As soon as we look at having a core-included "backup" we
 simply move the problem from plugins into core.
 >
 > I'd have thought that the best backwards compatible option would be to
 make it easy for the page template to be used (failing that, the index
 template) through the same action as the generic template hook uses.. so
 hopefully the plugin/theme shouldn't have to do anything special at all.
 >
 This is the way that bbPress works, and the problem with this approach is
 having additional markup for pagination, Previous/Next, and comments. It
 would be great if themes came with the header, sidebar, footer, and
 surrounding mark-up, without any of the post/page/WordPress specific bits
 hard-coded into them.

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