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Okay, I have another request (perhaps two). The new "Save and Rebuild" button in templates is nice, but I miss the old "Rebuild" by itself - what if I just want to rebuild, but have no need to save it again? That's not a biggie. I can deal with it if I have to do so. What I want is really intelligent rebuilding, especially as it relates to archives.
Index pages are easy to rebuild. But if I edit an individual archive, I have to go to rebuild, then select that archive type, then rebuild (or even rebuild everything). What if the archives had a "Save and Rebuild" option, but it rebuilt only those archives where that template was used? That would be simply incredible. What do you say, Jay?
It would be so nice to be able to get this sort of thing in there, and not have to rebuild the whole archive type over again. Sure, I can do it dynamically, but I have a tendency to create multiple archive mappings (for instance, two or three category archive maps) - I don't always want to rebuild all the category archives, but just one map. Why should I need to rebuild all the category archives for just one map?
Comments (3)
Check out Kevin Shay's RetroRebuild plugin (requires BigPAPI)
Posted by kate on August 26, 2005 11:53 AM
Yes, but as I mentioned, I'm more concerned about the other issue, which cannot (easily, anyway) be handled by BigPAPI. All RetroRebuild does is give me the old rebuild button back. Which I might do - thanks for pointing it out. But I think more undercover work will be needed for any sort of automated archive rebuilding.
Posted by Chad Everett on August 26, 2005 12:16 PM
My suggestion doesn't really address the problem with rebuilding archives from the template editing screen, does it? That would be a welcome feature, indeed.
Posted by kate on August 26, 2005 12:16 PM