<div dir="ltr">Okay, that's not a theme template, that is a Custom Page Template with a custom loop, and no, that sort of thing should not be allowed in any theme in the WordPress.org theme directory. In short, that is an incorrect way to show the main blog posts on a page.<div>
<br></div><div>There's nothing wrong with making Custom Page Templates to show special things, but the "main blog" is not a "special thing"... and it is correctly handled by the core Template Hierarchy. The home.php file should be what you use to display the blog posts, and you should not have a custom query in it like that.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The reason that is wrong is because it doesn't correctly support the core functionality for setting a Page to appear on the front-page, and for the blog posts to appear on a sub-page. With this implementation, somebody has to make a Page and also set it to be using this Page Template, and then also set the Settings->Reading settings incorrectly as well. </div>
<div><br></div><div>See, if you have the Settings->Reading settings set correctly, with both the Front and Posts pages set to some values, then it is not possible for the Page to use your custom Page Template. So your "blog.php" here will not get used unless you also instruct the user to set up the site incorrectly (aka, incompletely). The correct way is to use the home.php to do a normal Blog loop, and then that will be used no matter where the blog posts are displayed, as long as the site is set up correctly.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>-Otto</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net" target="_blank">philip@frumph.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>it’s a template that themes have that do the blog loop that can be
associated to a page, either custom for specific categories are all</div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Calibri">“there’s no way to display it using any other
template file”</font></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Calibri">This is what I use, works fine:</font></div>
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<div><?php</div>
<div>/*</div>
<div>Template Name: Blog</div>
<div>*/</div>
<div>get_header();</div>
<div> </div>
<div>$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;</div>
<div> </div>
<div>$blog_query = array(</div>
<div> 'paged' => $paged,</div>
<div> 'post_type' => 'post',</div>
<div> 'in_the_loop' => true,</div>
<div> 'posts_per_page' =>
comicpress_themeinfo('home_post_count')</div>
<div> );</div>
<div> </div>
<div>$wp_query = new WP_Query(); $wp_query->query($blog_query);</div>
<div>if (have_posts()) {</div>
<div> while (have_posts()) : the_post();</div>
<div> $withcomment = 0;</div>
<div> get_template_part('content',
get_post_format());</div>
<div> endwhile;</div>
<div> comicpress_pagination();</div>
<div>}</div>
<div> </div>
<div>wp_reset_query();</div>
<div> </div>
<div>get_footer();</div>
<div> </div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="otto@ottodestruct.com" href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">Otto</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 05, 2014 11:00 AM</div><div>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [theme-reviewers] Is Blog.php is allowed in
theme?</div></div></div></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:48 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>The blog template is the point I was making in the first place, where if
you do *not* want the is_home or is_front_page events to execute, that is the
only way to bypass that; which makes having a blog.php useful.</div>
<div> </div></div></div></div></blockquote>
<div> </div>No, I mean, there is nothing in the code that I can find for
"blog.php" at all. It's not mentioned in the Template Hierarchy, there's nothing
in the template.php core file that mentions it. So, what exactly is this
"blog.php" to which you refer?
<div> </div>
<div>As far as I know, if you're displaying the results of the main posts query,
then you're doing it on front-page.php, home.php, or index.php. There's no way
to display it using any other template file.</div>
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<div>-Otto</div></div>
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