[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #13818: There should be index pages for custom post types

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#13818: There should be index pages for custom post types
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 Reporter:  frankieroberto  |       Owner:  nacin      
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  accepted   
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.1        
Component:  Template        |     Version:  3.0        
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:  needs-patch
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Comment(by mikeschinkel):

 Replying to [comment:36 nacin]:
 > Replying to [comment:34 mikeschinkel]:
 > > Sorry, I can't hold my thoughts on this.  If you have a website with a
 list of products, what does the term ''"Product Archive"'' mean?  In
 business it typically means product you no longer sell.  How about a site
 for movies; what does a ''"Movie Archive"'' mean?  Frankly, I can't think
 of what its relevance would be on the web.
 >
 > I agree with you.
 >
 > This is in the code, not the theme. Nowhere does the theme need to say
 "Product Archive." archive.php is the default catch-all for everything
 that is not singular, everything that is not home. Template hierarchy
 diagrams are very clear on this. It made sense to branch off archive
 templates the same way we branched off singular templates. We had
 single.php. Now we also have single-$post_type.php, and toggled by
 is_singular(). We had archive.php. Now we have archive-$post_type.php, and
 toggled by is_archive().
 >
 > People are familiar with the template hierarchy. I have added another
 step to the existing template hierarchy, following what we did in 3.0 with
 singular templates, versus adding an entire branch.
 >
 > I'm not putting my foot down on 'archive'. Personally, I don't care. I
 wanted this to be a non-invasive patch so I went with consistency on what
 we had.

 Fair point ''(and good job diffusing. :)''

 My concern was that people will write articles about it and they will call
 them ''"Custom Post Type Archives"'' because the files will be called
 `archive-%post_type%.php` and most people who write about WordPress don't
 ponder the fine points.  Too bad we couldn't break with the past on this
 one, but your point about it being ''non-invasive'' is acknowledged.

 Alas, inertia is a bitch.  <sigh>

 -Mike

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