Re: num_entries should not apply to category views

> I don't think wbgpager is a good way to navigate through a category. It
> means you have to scroll past the body of every post to get to the one
> you want, going through many pages, which is a lot of scrolling, and a
> lot of distracting visual noise. So lets say you use a flavour for

The readmore-plugin avoids this problem nicely; most of my entries are either
short notes or bigger ones with just an introductory paragraph and the BREAK.

> category paths that shows only the title of each post so you can
> navigate more quickly, now each post is just one line so you'll want to
> increase the number of entries on each page by increasing num_entries,
> but that will also apply to the front page where each post is shown in
> full...

Sorry: I kind of missed this point from your original post. Yet, I like more the
newspaper-like feeling where you get, besides the title, a short introduction
gathering the main points (i.e. again assuming the readmore-plugin).

> As a compromise I would suggest breaking num_entries into two
> configuration variables: num_entries and num_entries_category.

This sounds good to me and should hardly make a difference at the code-level
(say, a boolen value determining the on/off -truncation of the
category-num_entries).

But since I will be using the mentioned plugins in any case, and since we all
tend to agree that num_entries for the category-entries is not a good idea, I see
no point in arguing against making the default vanilla-install better by avoiding
the truncation in this case.

- Jukka.


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