Template:Category/Post/footer

Footer template for Category:Post pages — paired with Template:Category/Post.

Post pages invoke this at the END of the page body so the comments section renders below the post's prose:

Comments

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Why a separate template: the SemanticSchemas dispatcher auto-renders Template:Category/Post at the TOP of every Post page, so anything in that template lands above the prose. Comments belong at the bottom, so they live here in a footer the author drops in manually — same pattern as Template:Category/Project/footer.

How comments work

No custom comment system: comments live on the post's Talk page and are authored with DiscussionTools (the same tooling the wiki already uses for its forum/discussion board). This footer just surfaces them:

• When the Talk page exists, its discussion is transcluded here as a

 read-only preview followed by a link to the full Talk page.
 DiscussionTools' reply/Add-topic UI only activates in the Talk
 namespace, so the transcluded copy on this main-namespace post page
 renders as static text — readers click through to the Talk page to
 actually reply, where the full threaded UI lives.

• When it doesn't exist yet, an invite to start the discussion shows

 instead (the link lands on the empty Talk page, where
 DiscussionTools' Add-topic affordance creates it).

The preview is height-capped (see .post-discussion-thread in Template:Category/Post/styles.css) so a long thread doesn't dominate the post; short threads show in full, longer ones scroll within the box.

The talk page is resolved with Template talk:Category/Post/footer, i.e. always the Talk page of the post this footer is rendered on — there is no page-override parameter (none is needed for the normal case of invoking the footer from the post's own page).

NOTE: the Template talk:Category/Post/footer transclusion sits on its own line inside .post-discussion-thread on purpose. Don't

collapse it back onto the same line as the opening

:

if the transcluded content follows inline markup, its first line (usually a == topic == heading) is no longer at the start of a line, so MediaWiki renders the leading == as literal text instead of a heading. The newline keeps the first topic heading parsing correctly.

Deployment

Like the UI/* widgets and the Project footer, this template isn't reachable from any category's display template, so it only syncs if it's listed in the wiki's SchemaSync:Config pages: list. Add Template:Category/Post/footer there.