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Ticket #21951, comment 24
initial v1 2 2 > But when you look at it, wouldn't it be cleaner if Twenty Twelve had a date.php, category.php, and tag.php? I'm thinking about the approach a user would take, trying to customize their theme, probably from the theme editor, without knowing a thing about WordPress. (Been there, many years ago.) I'd rather leverage the existing hierarchy than fill up a catchall template with conditionals. 3 3 4 I used to feel the same way, and somewhat strongly, until I realized that in practice this seems to rarely happen with themes and that what you have is a bunch of templates hanging around that are modular for no particular reason. I think, in the end, it's actually easier to grok archive templates with those conditionals for the title-ey bits. Anyone needing to change anything more, developer-ey people, will know they can take advantage of the template hierarchy in a fork or a child theme. It's more code in the one template but more templates feels way lighter. Anecdotally I've seen lots of themers saying the same thing in forums.4 I used to feel the same way, and somewhat strongly, until I realized that in practice this seems to rarely happen with themes and that what you have is a bunch of templates hanging around that are modular for no particular reason. I think, in the end, it's actually easier to grok archive templates with those conditionals for the title-ey bits. Anyone needing to change anything more, developer-ey people, will know they can take advantage of the template hierarchy in a fork or a child theme. It's more code in the one template but more templates feels way heavier. Anecdotally I've seen lots of themers saying the same thing in forums.
