[theme-reviewers] Please assign me a theme to review

[Daniel Tara]

Got it now!

It's the way I was doing it for clients who requested to feature their  
latest 3 articles on the front page and then have a separate section  
for all the posts, that's why I thought this might have been their  
intention.

Daniel

--- On Tue, 3/29/11, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> From: Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Please assign me a theme to review
> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 6:11 PM
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:05 AM,
> Daniel Tara <contact at onedesigns.com>
> wrote:
> > I think this comes from a misunderstanding of the
> theme's intention:
> >
> > The way I understood it, is that the theme wants to
> display the first 3
> > posts on the front page and then normal post listing
> in the other. In this
> > case using front-page.php would be better, because the
> post consistency
> > could be preserved without using offsets and
> potentially breaking
> > pagination.
> >
> > If I misunderstood it, and the theme alters the main
> post listing period,
> > then my mistake.
>
> If they used front-page.php instead of home.php, and it had
> that
> query_posts() call in it, and then somebody tried to assign
> a static
> front page, then they would be unable to see the static
> page they
> selected for the front page. That seems to me like it would
> most
> definitely *not* be their intended outcome.
>
> In fact, if they used front-page.php and broke the static
> front page
> selection like that, then that would be a very good reason
> to fail the
> theme.
>
> -Otto
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