Re: A simple question about ordering of posts

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 06:54:46PM +0000, chombee wrote:
> 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.
> 
Thanks for all the thoughts, I'm just about off to bed now but I'll
re-read tomorrow.

I agree that switching templates makes more sense and is more
flexible. 

-- 
Chris Green


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