[wp-hackers] is_front_page should have it's own template file

[Aaron D. Campbell]

Ozh wrote:
> This is what got me confused. I don't get the point of having index.php 
> and front-page.php...
>
> Ozh
>   
For the same reason there is a home.php and an index.php. You can see 
the current hierarchy here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

Most of the sites that I work on use a static page as the front page, 
moving the blog to another page (usually something like CompanyName Blog 
or CompanyName News), so I used the code contained in the is_front_page 
function pretty regularly. Currently the index.php is sort of a 
catch-all for anything that you DON'T have a file for. I personally 
think it should stay that way. I mean, we COULD just get rid of all of 
these pages, and use index.php and a bunch of conditionals (the same 
conditionals that are used not to decide what file to use), but the 
template files are there as a convenience. For me, and probably quite a 
few others that develop business sites (almost exclusively), it would be 
really nice to have.