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

[Alexander Beutl]

seems nice and sweet now - will test it today (after sleeping - it 3am in
germany now...)
thanks
Alex

2008/4/23, Aaron D. Campbell <aaron at xavisys.com>:
>
> Ok, I re-opened and amended the ticket.  The home.php file is meant to be
> for the front page, if the front page is posts (uses is_home).  Since that
> side of it is already handled, I changed the function to
> get_static_front_page_template and it only uses that if you are on the front
> page AND it's a static page (if is_front_page() is true, and is_home() was
> false).  The order in this case goes:
> CustomTemplate -> front-page.php -> page.php -> index.php
>
>
> Alexander Beutl wrote:
>
> > Yep it really would be helpful - but only when you make two of them, one
> > for
> > actual index-front-pages and one for actual static-front-pages.
> > Combining both in one file would not leed down the right road since the
> > displayed content is much different... one uses the loop to show more
> > then
> > one content item and the other one will show only one content item.
> >
> > So why not checking this and then going to static_front.php and
> > index_front.php? Would be much better than adding a front.php which
> > would
> > have to be divided into if(is_page()){ ... } and else {...} I think.
> >
> > I really didn't want to be offensive,
> > Aaron, I just do belive there will many templates which feature only
> > one of both but use front.php for it and where many stuff will go
> > wrong
> > whenever you change your frontpage to whatever of both is not supportet
> > -
> > while having both would provide the right fallbacks for the unsupported
> > way
> > since noone will create a file he has no content for (or I won't want to
> > use
> > his theme anyway)
> >
> >
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