<div dir="ltr">Yes, that's what front-page.php for.<div><br></div><div>The one caveat is that, even when including a front-page.php template, Themes must still support the user configuration for front page display of either a static page or the blog posts index.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:59 PM, priyanshu mittal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:priyanshu.mittal@gmail.com" target="_blank">priyanshu.mittal@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey I have gone through blackbird theme on repository which uses the custom home page template, means, on the theme activation the custom home page gets displayed in place of regular index post page... can I do the same thing in my theme</div>
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