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

[Chip Bennett]

No, I think I have it exactly:

"But I've had a lot of requests for options to hide certain sections and
one of them *was the blog feed on front page*."


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <
philip at frumph.net> wrote:

>   Yeah, you’re not getting it.
>
> It’s not for the front page
>
>
>
>  *From:* Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> *Sent:* Friday, September 13, 2013 7:11 PM
> *To:* Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers.<theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] Feedback on use of query_posts please -
> Badidea?
>
>  index.php is NOT the front page template, and should not be used as
> such. It is the default fallback template.
>
> Use front-page.php for your front page template, and home.php for your
> blog posts index template. Then all of your issues go away, magically. :)
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Zulfikar Nore <zulfikarnore at live.com>wrote:
>
>>  I'm using the index.php showing featured content at the top followed by
>> the blog feed - which works fine and I had planned to stick with that. But
>> I've had a lot of requests for options to hide certain sections and one of
>> them was the blog feed on front page.
>>
>> template.blog.php is to open the option to still have a page with the
>> blog feed on it when the user has opted to hide them on the front.
>>
>> Long story short - user hides posts on front but still wants a blog fed
>> page and this is my attempt to fill that need.
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:42:43 -0400
>> From: chip at chipbennett.net
>> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>
>> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Feedback on use of query_posts please -
>> Bad idea?
>>
>>  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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