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

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

because he’s probably making a ‘page’ that is off the /index/home/ it’s a template... i.e. not the landing, lotsa people do this ;/  splash page in the front, link in menu to the actual blog loop





From: Chip Bennett 
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 6:42 PM
To: Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers. 
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Feedback on use of query_posts please - Badidea?

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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