Parentless category system about wok HOT 2 CLOSED

Hmm. The way you talk about this idea makes me think you guys think about the categories different than what I had in mind. Let me try and explain what I have in my head.

Imagine my fictional website. I have a main page, and then a categories school and blog. This can be represented as a tree. (Nodes are slugs)

.
├── main
├── projects
│   ├── dotfiles
│   └── wok
└── school
    ├── cs362
    ├── cs381

So in content there would be 7 files. main, projects, and school would have no category or a category of "" (empty string). dotfiles and wok would have a category of projects. cs362 and cs381 would have a category of school.

Then for my purposes, dotfiles, wok, cs362, and cs381 would use a default template (so type: default or no type in the header), main would probably type: main and have its own special template. Projects and school would have type: index.

Then I would make an index template, that would first put the content of the page, and then list all the sub pages.

To address your two "big problems":

• A user never has to set the slug to index. The user can set the type to index, but also to anything else. They have the option to handle sub pages in template for any name.
• I don't think its hard to keep track of which content is the parent of what category. The names are the same. The content 'projects' is the parent of the category 'projects'.

from wok.

Ah OK, I was thinking about it differently. The way you describe it makes a lot more sense :)

from wok.