Blog Plugins

[shawn_a]

I thought shawn's whole point was that he doesn't want to do this with regular pages, and wants a standalone plugin to do all of the functions? Some people are okay with making the 'normal page' concession (most of the users who use Special Pages), but I understand why some simply won't. Basically, what shawn would want would be a version of the Special Pages plugin that didn't show the pages on the normal 'View All Pages' tab, that has the ability to automatically archive posts of a certain page type and perhaps saves the pages in a separate subdirectory (e.g. data/specialpages) since the special pages plugin does virtually everything else on his list.

Though I have to say, isn't page caching and breadcrumb trailing easier by virtue of the items being pages? For instance, if the special pages were saved to a new subdirectory of /data, would you be able to call these functions with respect to those pages? Furthermore, would you be able to hierarch them properly so that they'd show up in the regular and i18n breadcrumb trail? It's little details like this that make me see it as more beneficial to simply stick to pages (but as I said, I understand why others wouldn't want to).

Good point, I have updated the main post, ability to simple filter or hide stuff from pages view is more practical probably. This way we cover indexing, caching, sitemapping, and backups in the clear.