I want to make my templates use the loops on the pages where there are loops (home, category, etc etc). I do not want to use any of the "category", "links" etc tags. (I am familiar with the workings of GForum, where loops are used all the time, there are almost no "fully-formatted" tags).
Here are a few questions related to this:
1) Has anyone made a complete template set using only loops?
2) If yes, were you able to do that with the tags available on a page, or did you have to use PRE hooks to supply some additional tags? Or were you using your own functions? (e.g. in a category_loop to decide when to start a new <td> element)
3) The "category_loop" in category pages is supposed to contain the information about the subcategories. However I noted that if there are no subcats, then the loop still contains one element, namely the data of the current category. Is that a bug, or is there a reason behind this?
4) Are there disadvantages of using loops?
Thanks a lot for you answers.
Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins
Here are a few questions related to this:
1) Has anyone made a complete template set using only loops?
2) If yes, were you able to do that with the tags available on a page, or did you have to use PRE hooks to supply some additional tags? Or were you using your own functions? (e.g. in a category_loop to decide when to start a new <td> element)
3) The "category_loop" in category pages is supposed to contain the information about the subcategories. However I noted that if there are no subcats, then the loop still contains one element, namely the data of the current category. Is that a bug, or is there a reason behind this?
4) Are there disadvantages of using loops?
Thanks a lot for you answers.
Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins