[theme-reviewers] Custom home page in the theme

[Chip Bennett]

Scratch that. Typed too fast:

if ( 'posts' == get_option( 'show_on_front' ) ) {
    include( get_home_template() );
} else {
    // Custom front-page markup goes here
}

The option is 'show_on_front', not 'front_page_displays'.


On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> Indeed. This is my current method:
>
> if ( 'posts' == get_option( 'front_page_displays' ) ) {
>     include( get_home_template() );
> } else {
>     // Custom front-page markup goes here
> }
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Stanko Metodiev <stanko at metodiew.com>wrote:
>
>> From what I know you have to have condition statement where you can check
>> if static homepage is selected. Will check later if you want, but now I'm
>> away from pc :)
>>
>> powered by Android
>> On Sep 9, 2013 9:51 PM, "Abhik Biswas" <abhik at itsabhik.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Chip,
>>> When a front-page.php is present is a theme, won't it take precedence
>>> over the page selected at front page display settings, according to Template
>>> Hierarchy <http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy>?
>>>
>>> I never tested it though.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, that's what front-page.php for.
>>>>
>>>> The one caveat is that, even when including a front-page.php template,
>>>> Themes must still support the user configuration for front page display of
>>>> either a static page or the blog posts index.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:59 PM, priyanshu mittal <
>>>> priyanshu.mittal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey I have gone through blackbird theme on repository  which uses the
>>>>> custom home page template, means, on the theme activation the custom home
>>>>> page gets displayed in place of regular index post page...  can I do the
>>>>> same thing in my theme
>>>>>
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