Re: A simple question about ordering of posts

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 06:23:14PM +0000, chombee wrote:
> Having said all this, cb_entryparser doesn't really seem like the right
> callback for what you want to do. You don't really want to change how
> the entry is parsed from file, just how the entry is rendered. Maybe a
> cb_postformat plugin that adds a 'template_name' key to the entry_data
> dict.

No, wait! I think you want the cb_story callback, the same one that the
readmore plugin uses. Like the readmore plugin does, you can get the
entry dict with:

    entry = args['entry']

then use 'bl_type' to see if we're dealing with an index or a permalink
page:

    if  entry['bl_type'] == 'file':
        # This is a 'file' page, showing a single entry.
        pass
    else:
        # This is an index page (front page or year, month, day, or
        # category etc. page) showing multiple entries.
        entry['template_name'] = 'story-index'

As a matter of fact, a 'use different story templates for file
pages and index pages' plugin would be much simpler and more flexible
than the readmore plugin. If you wanted to provide a preview or summary
text for each entry like the readmore plugin does, you could just use a
metadata field for that.


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