[theme-reviewers] Use Static Front Page by Default for Reviews?

[Chip Bennett]

I've run into Themes for which "home.php" was intended incorrectly to be
used as a Static Front Page. (Granted, the one I'm remembering specifically
was not a repository-hosted Theme.) But, it was cause enough for me to add
it to my (personal) list of things to check.

(And this is another unfortunate example of confusion-by-design, due to
less-than-ideal nomenclature - probably as a result of the nomenclature
being established while WordPress was still primarily a *blogging*
application. But yes, confusion abounds. I answer this question more than
once a week, between the WPORG support forums and wordpress.stackexchange.)

Chip

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> wrote:
> > 2) The Theme Developer mistakenly uses "home.php" instead of
> > "front-page.php" as the Front Page template, which causes the Blog Posts
> > Index to behave incorrectly when in a Static Front Page setup.
>
> There seems to be some confusion surrounding this.
>
> - home.php is used to display the main set of blog posts, wherever
> they happen to be. The fallback for it is index.php.
> - front-page.php is used to display the front page, regardless of
> whether it's a static page or the blog posts page. The fallback for it
> is also index.php, *unless* you have a static page as the front page,
> in which case it will use page.php and then index.php.
>
> In other words, home.php is always used for the main blog, never for a
> Static Page on Front. Including a home.php is not an error, if you are
> intending to only style the main blog area differently.
>
> -Otto
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