<div dir="ltr">There are many ways to implement a custom front page. The key points here are:<div><br></div><div>1) Not to mis-use index.php as anything other than the default fallback template file</div><div>2) To incorporate/respect settings -> reading, front page displays/front page/posts page</div>
<div>3) To incorporate/follow the Template Hierarchy</div><div><br></div><div>A template-blog.php is almost always going to be _doing_it_wrong(), because when the user sets the front page to display a static page, and assigns a page to display the posts page, WordPress is never going to use template-blog.php to display that page. It's always and only ever going to use home.php, falling back to index.php.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Zulfikar Nore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zulfikarnore@live.com" target="_blank">zulfikarnore@live.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">I think I know where Chip is coming from.<div><br></div><div>front-page.php conditionally calls index.php when user has Settings >> Reading set to latest posts and if they have the settings to static page then front-page calls the whatever-you-want-on-front.php right?<br>
<br><div><hr>Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:14:31 -0400<div><div class="h5"><br>From: <a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Feedback on use of query_posts please - Badidea?<br><br><div dir="ltr">No, I think I have it exactly:<div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">But I've had a lot of requests for options to hide certain sections and one of them <b>was the blog feed on front page</b>."</span></div>
</div><div><br><br><div>On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net" target="_blank">philip@frumph.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Yeah, you’re not getting it.</div>
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<div>It’s not for the front page </div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="chip@chipbennett.net" href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">Chip Bennett</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 13, 2013 7:11 PM</div><div>
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- Badidea?</div></div></div></div></div>
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<div dir="ltr">index.php is NOT the front page template, and should not be used as
such. It is the default fallback template.
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<div>Use front-page.php for your front page template, and home.php for your blog
posts index template. Then all of your issues go away, magically. :)</div></div>
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<div>On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Zulfikar Nore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zulfikarnore@live.com" target="_blank">zulfikarnore@live.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I'm using the index.php showing featured content at the top
followed by the blog feed - which works fine and I had planned to stick with
that. But I've had a lot of requests for options to hide certain sections and
one of them was the blog feed on front page.
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<div>template.blog.php is to open the option to still have a page with the
blog feed on it when the user has opted to hide them on the front.</div>
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<div>Long story short - user hides posts on front but still wants a blog fed
page and this is my attempt to fill that need.<br><br>
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:42:43 -0400<br>From: <a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a>
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query_posts please - Bad idea?<br><br></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Why do you need template-blog.php when there is home.php for
exactly that purpose?</div>
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<div>On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Zulfikar Nore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zulfikarnore@live.com" target="_blank">zulfikarnore@live.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I've read around that using query_posts is bad but I've seen
many a themes using it and get away with it.
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<div>My case is I'm trying to put together a template-blog.php for StrapVert
and this is what I've come up with so far:</div>
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<div>
<div>add_filter('option_show_on_front', '__return_false');</div>
<div> global $wp_query;</div>
<div> query_posts(array(</div>
<div><span style="WHITE-SPACE:pre-wrap"></span> 'paged' =>
$wp_query->get('paged'),</div>
<div><span style="WHITE-SPACE:pre-wrap"></span> 'post__not_in' =>
get_option('sticky_posts'),</div>
<div> ));</div>
<div> </div>
<div> global $more; $more = 0;</div>
<div> get_template_part('index-blog');</div>
<div> $more = 1;</div>
<div>remove_filter('option_show_on_front', '__return_false');</div>
<div> </div>
<div> wp_reset_query();</div>
<div>wp_reset_postdata();</div></div>
<div> </div>
<div>But before I add these changes to the theme and submit an update I'd
like some feedback on "How Really Bad" is query_posts and can I "get away"
with the above?</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Thanks in advance,</div>
<div>Zulf
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