[theme-reviewers] Is Blog.php is allowed in theme?
Chip Bennett
chip at chipbennett.net
Sat Jul 5 21:33:41 UTC 2014
Sorry, but you're simply wrong. You don't need to do any of that.
I've given all of the necessary steps, several times:
1. Create 2 static pages, A and B
2. Settings -> Reading -> Front page displays = "a static page"
3. Settings -> Reading -> Front page = "Page A"
4. Settings -> Reading -> Posts page = "Page B"
That's it. All done. No FTP or other FUD required.
On Jul 5, 2014 5:01 PM, "Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)" <philip at frumph.net>
wrote:
> This is the tech support conversations to enable someone to have a blog
> on a separate page, comparison.
>
> Scenario 1 (your considered “proper” way)
>
> 1. First, FTP into your site. Yes, FTP; you can watch some youtube
> video’s on learning how to ftp. Contact your hosting to get your info
> properly.
>
> 2. Navigate to the wp-content/themes/yourthemename/ and copy the index.php
> and name is front-page.php .. yes, copy.. yes, you need to first move the
> index.php file to your local drive then .. you don’t know how to do that?
> okay let me explain ... ( 5 mins later )
>
> 3. Okay now that you have that, you can go to settings –> reading and
> enable the posts page to be a page you created, .. okay yeah so create a
> page yes, a page .. you’ll need to create 2 pages, call one “Home” and the
> other “Blog” (or) “posts page”
>
> 4. Okay you did that? fine, set those in the settings –> reading, choose
> which pages you want to display where.
>
> 5. Cool beans, you’re done. What? That plugin you paid $50 for is
> displaying on the posts page too? .. I’m sorry you’re going to have to
> take that up with that plugin maker. Oh, that one too? damn people don’t
> know how to program.
>
> 6. I realize that it’s pretty complicated, but that’s the way the theme
> review team wants to have it done, I apologize profusely.
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Scenario 2:
>
> 1. Go to pages –> add new and create a blog page, in the right column
> associate the “blog” template to it.
>
> 2. Go to the theme settings and disable the blog loop from appearing on
> the home page.
>
> 3. You’re welcome!
>
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> Yeah, rather stick with my method.
>
> *From:* Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 05, 2014 1:20 PM
> *To:* Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers.
> <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] Is Blog.php is allowed in theme?
>
> Okay, that's not a theme template, that is a Custom Page Template with a
> custom loop, and no, that sort of thing should not be allowed in any theme
> in the WordPress.org theme directory. In short, that is an incorrect way to
> show the main blog posts on a page.
>
> There's nothing wrong with making Custom Page Templates to show special
> things, but the "main blog" is not a "special thing"... and it is correctly
> handled by the core Template Hierarchy. The home.php file should be what
> you use to display the blog posts, and you should not have a custom query
> in it like that.
>
> The reason that is wrong is because it doesn't correctly support the core
> functionality for setting a Page to appear on the front-page, and for the
> blog posts to appear on a sub-page. With this implementation, somebody has
> to make a Page and also set it to be using this Page Template, and then
> also set the Settings->Reading settings incorrectly as well.
>
> See, if you have the Settings->Reading settings set correctly, with both
> the Front and Posts pages set to some values, then it is not possible for
> the Page to use your custom Page Template. So your "blog.php" here will not
> get used unless you also instruct the user to set up the site incorrectly
> (aka, incompletely). The correct way is to use the home.php to do a normal
> Blog loop, and then that will be used no matter where the blog posts are
> displayed, as long as the site is set up correctly.
>
> -Otto
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <
> philip at frumph.net> wrote:
>
>> 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 <otto at ottodestruct.com>
>> *Sent:* Saturday, July 05, 2014 11:00 AM
>> *To:* Discussion list for WordPress theme reviewers.
>> <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
>> *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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