I've run into Themes for which "home.php" was intended incorrectly to be used as a Static Front Page. (Granted, the one I'm remembering specifically was not a repository-hosted Theme.) But, it was cause enough for me to add it to my (personal) list of things to check.<div>
<br></div><div>(And this is another unfortunate example of confusion-by-design, due to less-than-ideal nomenclature - probably as a result of the nomenclature being established while WordPress was still primarily a *blogging* application. But yes, confusion abounds. I answer this question more than once a week, between the WPORG support forums and wordpress.stackexchange.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Chip Bennett <<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> 2) The Theme Developer mistakenly uses "home.php" instead of<br>
> "front-page.php" as the Front Page template, which causes the Blog Posts<br>
> Index to behave incorrectly when in a Static Front Page setup.<br>
<br>
</div>There seems to be some confusion surrounding this.<br>
<br>
- home.php is used to display the main set of blog posts, wherever<br>
they happen to be. The fallback for it is index.php.<br>
- front-page.php is used to display the front page, regardless of<br>
whether it's a static page or the blog posts page. The fallback for it<br>
is also index.php, *unless* you have a static page as the front page,<br>
in which case it will use page.php and then index.php.<br>
<br>
In other words, home.php is always used for the main blog, never for a<br>
Static Page on Front. Including a home.php is not an error, if you are<br>
intending to only style the main blog area differently.<br>
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-Otto<br>
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