[wp-hackers] Development for 2.next

[Carthik Sharma]

On 2/1/06, Chris Kelly <ckelly5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you're going with a "make this page the home page" solution, what
> would be the easiest way to use that in conjunction with a subsection/
> Page as the journal?
>
http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/home-page-control is a plugin that does
precisely this - which was previously discussed on this list.
http://sabarish.net is an example of a blog driven by the plugin.
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> On 2/1/06, Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu> wrote:
> > A few development ideas for the next release, including proposed
> > implementations.
> > * Build in capability to make a page the home/front page.
> >
> > Add "Make this page the home page" checkbox to the Create/Edit Page UI.
> >   Set "front_page" option to the id of the selected page.
> > In WP_Query::get_posts(), if is_home() and "front_page" is set, set the
> > page_id to the "front_page" id and run the query.
This when coupled with a "slug" for the main "blog" page  would be awesome.

Carthik.
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