[theme-reviewers] Feedback on use of query_posts please - Bad idea?

[Chip Bennett]

Why do you need template-blog.php when there is home.php for exactly that
purpose?


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Zulfikar Nore <zulfikarnore at live.com>wrote:

> I've read around that using query_posts is bad but I've seen many a themes
> using it and get away with it.
>
> My case is I'm trying to put together a template-blog.php for StrapVert
> and this is what I've come up with so far:
>
> add_filter('option_show_on_front', '__return_false');
>   global $wp_query;
>     query_posts(array(
>    'paged' => $wp_query->get('paged'),
>    'post__not_in' => get_option('sticky_posts'),
>     ));
>
>   global $more; $more = 0;
>     get_template_part('index-blog');
>        $more = 1;
> remove_filter('option_show_on_front', '__return_false');
>
>    wp_reset_query();
> wp_reset_postdata();
>
> But before I add these changes to the theme and submit an update I'd like
> some feedback on "How Really Bad" is query_posts and can I "get away" with
> the above?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Zulf
>
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