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

Sat Sep 14 02:32:55 UTC 2013

Ah, progress....Now I'm getting the hang of front-page.php :)

Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:30:14 -0400
From: chip at chipbennett.net
To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Feedback on use of query_posts please	-Badidea?

Both front-page.php and home.php are templates, defined in the Template Hierarchy. What they are not, however, is custom static-page templates. WordPress provides a core method to assign a static page to the front page and to display the blog posts index, and the Template Hierarchy defines which template files are used to render those contexts.

To answer your specific question: when a user selects "static page" for "front page displays, and then assigns static pages to the front page and posts page, WordPress will use front-page.php to render the front page, and home.php to render the posts page.

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Zulfikar Nore <zulfikarnore at live.com> wrote:

Neither of which are templates.
front-page.php will be picked up first so where will home.php fit in?

Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:24:49 -0400

From: chip at chipbennett.net
To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Feedback on use of query_posts please	-Badidea?

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 
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 7:14 PM
To: Discussion list for WordPress 
theme reviewers. 
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 
  Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 7:11 PM

  To: Discussion 
  list for WordPress theme reviewers. 

  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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