[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21951: Twenty Twelve: add post_type_archive_title to archive.php

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#21951: Twenty Twelve: add post_type_archive_title to archive.php
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 Reporter:  thomask                |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement            |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                 |   Milestone:  3.5
Component:  Bundled Theme          |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                 |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch 2nd-opinion  |
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Changes (by iandstewart):

 * cc: ian@… (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:6 nacin]:
 > But when you look at it, wouldn't it be cleaner if Twenty Twelve had a
 date.php, category.php, and tag.php? I'm thinking about the approach a
 user would take, trying to customize their theme, probably from the theme
 editor, without knowing a thing about WordPress. (Been there, many years
 ago.) I'd rather leverage the existing hierarchy than fill up a catchall
 template with conditionals.

 I used to feel the same way, and somewhat strongly, until I realized that
 in practice this seems to rarely happen with themes and that what you have
 is a bunch of templates hanging around that are modular for no particular
 reason. I think, in the end, it's actually easier to grok archive
 templates with those conditionals for the title-ey bits. Anyone needing to
 change anything more, developer-ey people, will know they can take
 advantage of the template hierarchy in a fork or a child theme. It's more
 code in the one template but more templates feels way lighter. Anecdotally
 I've seen lots of themers saying the same thing in forums.

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