[theme-reviewers] front-page.php and display of blog posts index (Chip Bennett)

[Fränk Klein]

Thanks Chip and Emil for your feedback. In the review ticket, I recommended transforming the theme into a child theme. This will ensure that the users benefit from updates to Responsive while conserving the layout and functionality of the submitted derivative theme.

Concerning the core patch, you can count in my support. It took me quite some time to wrap my head around how WordPress handles the home.php and front-page.php templates. I think this change will clarify the situation.

On Mar 2, 2013, at 10:45 PM, theme-reviewers-request at lists.wordpress.org wrote:

> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 16:36:08 -0500
> From: Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> Subject: [theme-reviewers] front-page.php and display of blog posts
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> I've just submitted a core patch that should facilitate Theme display of
> the blog posts index as the site front page for Themes that define custom
> static front page content using front-page.php:
> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/23669
> 
> Essentially, if approved, this patch would modify the template hierarchy
> slightly, such that the site front page would use home.php if 'posts' ==
> get_option( 'show_on_front' ), and would only use front-page.php if 'page'
> == get_option( 'show_on_front' ).
> 
> Comments/criticism/other feedback welcome!