<div dir="ltr">Yes, that would very much be frowned upon. Themes should not create static pages.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Evan Scoboria <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:evan@sheamediaco.com" target="_blank">evan@sheamediaco.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thanks Chip, </span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br>
</span></div><div><span style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Maybe there's a way I can restructure my template hierarchy to accommodate this.. or even set a condition to show different content depending on the situation. </font></span></div>
<div><span style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Would it be frowned upon if I developed a function to create and automatically populate a "Theme Home Page" page </font></span><font face="arial, sans-serif">after_setup_theme? I could use this page to display theme features and populate the front page in addition to providing some instruction on correct theme setup. </font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Best, </font></div><div class="im HOEnZb"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Evan</font></div>
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<br><br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Evan,<div><br></div><div>In the future (depending on when the related core ticket is completed), Themes will be able to declare that they are intended to display a static front page by default. At that time, I would assume that the previewer will be configured to support such Theme declarations. Until then, I believe that all Themes display the blog posts index in the previewer.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Otto may be able to provide more details on that front...</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Chip</div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Evan Scoboria <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:evan@sheamediaco.com" target="_blank">evan@sheamediaco.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Hi Chip,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the reply. </div><div><br></div>I guess that was an awkward way of saying that without the custom front page set, the theme will not be displaying all the features I've tried to make available through the custom front page template. <div>
<br></div><div>I've also built an automated example content loader that creates a front page along with some secondary pages, a few posts, a couple custom post-type items, generates a menu, and attaches featured images where useful. Would a feature like this be considered for use when setting up the theme? <br>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks again, </div><div><br></div><div><div>Evan<br clear="all"><div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">--</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<br><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Why will things not "really work the way they should" if the blog posts index is displayed as the site front page?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Evan Scoboria <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:evan@sheamediaco.com" target="_blank">evan@sheamediaco.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hi all, </span><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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I have a theme that went through it's first round of review last week and as I'm fixing the few issues that were listed I realized I had a question about how themes are displayed on the directory. The theme I'm working on uses a custom frontpage template. Without applying it things don't really work the way they should. Will a "home" page with the correct template be applied as the Front Page in Settings >> Reading if this is how the theme works best? </div>
<div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you all for the guidance, </div>
<div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Evan</div><div><div>
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