[pmwiki-users] 2.2.0: add Site.SiteHeader and Site.SiteFooter

[Martin Fick]

--- "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> Option 1:  A page that acts as a "fallback
> GroupHeader" when
> a group doesn't have one.  In this scenario, when
> viewing a page,
> we first look for a page named GroupHeader in the
> current group,
> if that exists we use it, otherwise we use the
> "fallback" page
> if it exists.

....

> -----
> 
> Option 2:  A page that is automatically added to the
> beginning
> of every page's markup, regardless of any
> group-specific GroupHeader
> page -- i.e., a "site-wide header".  



Despite any preferences for naming, option 2 can
always be used to create option 1, but option 1 cannot
achieve option 2.  This to me makes option 2 more
valuable and a tremendous time saver.  Option 1 seems
more like a valuable customization easily implemented
with conditionals in the Site.Header page of option 2.

In fact, this approach would seem to me to be the more
correct approach to site building, it could even
eliminate some of the group specific ideas as core
implementations in PmWiki and make them more of
something built upon the larger more powerful building
blocks of the engine.  I would almost advocate
changing the way the Sidebars work to be similar so
that more (or all) of the group specific behavior was
implemented as a simple defaults in the delivered
Site.* files.

Don't get me wrong, I like groups, but it often seems
that they need customization (look at all the special
site organizational recipes), why not just make them
customizations in the first place?  I realize that
this is BIG change with many potential bad
consequences, maybe something for another beta series?
;)

-Martin



       
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