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Re: section front page
etc wrote #308710:
Then we’d need to create also
<txp:if_author_frontpage />and so on, for consistency. And not win much, this does more or less the same:
<txp:if_section name="section_name">...
Fair enough.
I guess I am thinking in a non programmer way. The front page comes before the rest. I could nevertheless live easily with that solution.
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Re: section front page
I think the main problem is that there is no universal frontpage definition. Clearly, /some_section/ URL is section frontpage, but what about /some_section/?author=me? Sometimes you want to consider it as section+author frontpage, sometimes not.
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Re: section front page
etc wrote #308719:
the main problem is that there is no universal frontpage definition.
Exactly this. I refer to Section front pages as “landing pages” when explaining it to people. I’d call the author list an “author landing page” or category list a “category landing page”, but I wouldn’t call the site front page the site’s landing page, even though they’re all traditionally served by the same default Page template.
The way Oleg has this set up now allows you to decide what you deem “front” or “home” or “landing” or whatever you want, without our enforced naming convention getting in the way. You can serve them all from the same Page template if you like and differentiate easily, or assign a template for each use case, or a suite of templates to handle a subset of them. Nice and flexible, no plugin required.
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