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

[Chip Bennett]

That other page is... (wait for it...)

home.php


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <
philip at frumph.net> wrote:

>   Okay so you have it "HALF” right .
>
> the second part of that is to have the BLOG LOOP on another PAGE
>
> get it yet?
>
>
>
>
>  *From:* Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> *Sent:* Friday, September 13, 2013 7:14 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?
>
>  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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