[theme-reviewers] Is Blog.php is allowed in theme?

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

it’s a template that themes have that do the blog loop that can be associated to a page, either custom for specific categories are all

“there’s no way to display it using any other template file”

This is what I use, works fine:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Blog
*/
get_header();

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

$blog_query = array(
        'paged' => $paged,
        'post_type' => 'post',
        'in_the_loop' => true,
        'posts_per_page' => comicpress_themeinfo('home_post_count')
        );
        
$wp_query = new WP_Query(); $wp_query->query($blog_query);
if (have_posts()) {
    while (have_posts()) : the_post();
        $withcomment = 0;
        get_template_part('content', get_post_format());
    endwhile;
    comicpress_pagination();
}

wp_reset_query();

get_footer();


From: Otto 
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2014 11:00 AM
To: Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers. 
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Is Blog.php is allowed in theme?

On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <philip at frumph.net> wrote:

  The blog template is the point I was making in the first place, where if you do *not* want the is_home or is_front_page events to execute, that is the only way to bypass that; which makes having a blog.php useful.


No, I mean, there is nothing in the code that I can find for "blog.php" at all. It's not mentioned in the Template Hierarchy, there's nothing in the template.php core file that mentions it. So, what exactly is this "blog.php" to which you refer? 

As far as I know, if you're displaying the results of the main posts query, then you're doing it on front-page.php, home.php, or index.php. There's no way to display it using any other template file.

-Otto



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