[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #19627: Themes should be able to opt-in to a static front page

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#19627: Themes should be able to opt-in to a static front page
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 Reporter:  nacin            |       Owner:  koopersmith
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Themes           |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:
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Comment (by marius2012):

 The frontpage.patch tries to add the option to select page templates for
 the frontpage setting. In this way you no longer need to create a dummy
 page for that template and assign it as a frontpage, you can just select
 from the available templates in the theme ( http://prntscr.com/7h8cmb ) .
 In order to do it i have added a new boolean parameter for
 wp_dropdown_pages, named "include_templates" that will show also the
 templates when is set to true.

 A new feature that the patch is introducing is add_theme_support("custom-
 frontpage", "template_file"); which will enable developers to set by
 default a frontpage when the user is first installing the theme.
 Basically, if the theme has this support, on after_switch_theme action we
 will set the show_on_front = 'page' and page_on_front = "template_file" .
 We will also save the old values of those settings and we will rollback
 them when the theme is removed.

 Let me know what do you think about this

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