<div dir="ltr">You don't assign front-page.php to a static page, because front-page.php isn't a custom page template. In fact, front-page.php should *not* even have a "Template Name:" phpDoc header (which is what would allow it to be assigned to a static page).<div>
<br></div><div>The front-page.php template file is used contextually by WordPress, as per the Template Hierarchy, based on settings -> reading -> "front page displays" and "front page".</div></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:42 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>(snicker) guess I’ am doing it wrong then, because that has never worked
for me to assign front-page.php to a static page it has always overwritten the
main</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="zulfikarnore@live.com" href="mailto:zulfikarnore@live.com" target="_blank">Zulfikar Nore</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 13, 2013 7:32 PM</div>
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<div>Ah, progress....</div>Now I'm getting the hang of front-page.php :)<br><br>
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:30:14 -0400<br>From: <a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a><br>To:
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<div dir="ltr">Both front-page.php and home.php are templates, defined in the
Template Hierarchy. What they are not, however, is custom static-page templates.
WordPress provides a core method to assign a static page to the front page and
to display the blog posts index, and the Template Hierarchy defines which
template files are used to render those contexts.
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<div>To answer your specific question: when a user selects "static page" for
"front page displays, and then assigns static pages to the front page and posts
page, WordPress will use front-page.php to render the front page, and home.php
to render the posts page.</div></div>
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<div>On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:27 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">Neither of which are templates.
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<div>front-page.php will be picked up first so where will home.php fit
in?</div>
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:24:49 -0400
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<div><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:
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<div dir="ltr">That other page is... (wait for it...)
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<div>home.php</div></div>
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<div>On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:23 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>Okay so you have it "HALF” right .</div>
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<div>the second part of that is to have the BLOG LOOP on another PAGE</div>
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<div>get it yet?</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 7:14 PM</div>
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<div dir="ltr">No, I think I have it exactly:
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<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>
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<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>
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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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<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.
<div> </div>
<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>
<div> </div>
<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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