[wp-hackers] WP 2.1 static home page issues

[Lloyd Budd]

On 2/17/07, R.J. Kaplan <just.be.happy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed a vary weird behavior with WordPress 2.1 and static pages:
>
> 1. is_home() returns false when displaying the static home page, and
> returns true when displaying the inner page designated as the blog page.

See #3682: is_home() returns FALSE when using a static page as your
front page, should return TRUE
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3682
which is closed WONTFIX.

Your other numbered items are excellent discussion points, but I
personally don't have strong opinion on this area of functionality.

Cheers,
Lloyd