[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #13145: overly greedy home page url setting

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#13145: overly greedy home page url setting
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 Reporter:  usermrpapa     |       Owner:  ryan      
     Type:  defect (bug)   |      Status:  new       
 Priority:  high           |   Milestone:  Unassigned
Component:  Rewrite Rules  |     Version:            
 Severity:  major          |    Keywords:            
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 we are having an issue with displaying a static page on the front page
 with WP 3.0.

 Our plugin (a forum plugin) actually dynamically generates its page
 content and displays it on the single WP page. Additionally, we generate a
 series of rewrite rules for the appearance of pseudo pages/subpages on
 this single WP page (ie forum and topic pages)

 In previous WP versions we have been able to have our page be used as the
 static front page for WP sites, but this has stopped functioning in WP
 3.0.

 I believe we have traced it down to a change in wp-includes/canonical.php
 at lines 103 and 104:

 {{{
 } elseif ( is_page() && !is_feed() && isset($wp_query->queried_object) &&
 'page' == get_option('show_on_front') && $wp_query->queried_object->ID ==
 get_option('page_on_front')  && ! $redirect_url ) {
 $redirect_url = home_url('/');
 }}}

 Basically, here a decision was made that if it is a page set as the
 'home/front' link then just simple throw away the url and use the
 home_url.

 This appears a bit 'greedy' and bypasses any url rewriting done for that
 page.  It also will 'break' any plugin (ecommerce also comes to mind) that
 dynamically generats page content and tries to be set as the front page.

 Seems like this direct shouldn't be so absolute to the home url.  Or at a
 minimum, plugins should be able to override/filter this.

 thoughts?

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