<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><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="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><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>
</blockquote></div><br><div>FWIW, I've found that using front-page.php can be very effective in allowing a static front page and the recent posts query to share the same design elements and look quite similar.</div></body></html>