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<body class='hmmessage'><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.<div><br></div><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><div><br></div><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><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:42:43 -0400<br>From: chip@chipbennett.net<br>To: theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org<br>Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Feedback on use of query_posts please - Bad idea?<br><br><div dir="ltr">Why do you need template-blog.php when there is home.php for exactly that purpose?</div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">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><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><br></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><br></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><br></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><br></div><div> wp_reset_query();</div><div>wp_reset_postdata();</div></div><div><br></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><br></div><div>Thanks in advance,</div><div>Zulf </div> </div></div>
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