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

[Justin Tadlock]

I test themes with a static front page and separate blog/home/posts page 
all the time just to make sure they display things properly.  Besides 
proper template behavior, things to look out for might be:

* page title
* breadcrumbs
* navigation links

Another thing to note is that theme developers often mix up the 
is_home() and is_front_page() conditionals.  The theme ends up executing 
code when it really wasn't meant to.

On 4/22/2011 9:57 AM, Chip Bennett wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:otto at ottodestruct.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Chip Bennett
>     <chip at chipbennett.net <mailto: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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