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

[Charles E. Frees-Melvin]

front.php should also be selectable in the page template selector.


On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Charles E. Frees-Melvin
<charles.freesmelvin at gmail.com> wrote:
> so in hierarchy
>
>  if is_front=true
>
>  is_home=false
>
>  1. Defined Template
>  2. front.php
>  3. page.php
>  4. index.php
>
>  else
>
>  1. home.php
>  2. index.php
>
>  end if
>  end if
>
>
>
>  On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Alexander Beutl <xel at netgra.de> wrote:
>  > 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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Charles E. Frees-Melvin
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www.cefm.ca