[wp-testers] rewrite rules in the top level directory

[Austin Matzko]

On 11/10/05, Michael Hampton <error10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Exactly what are you going to search for, if the request is for the root
> page of the web site? That's pretty obvious. But /blog/ is not the root
> page, and WP has to be able to make the distinction there. Yes, it's
> convoluted code, but it works. :)

Here's what my plugin does in previous versions: it allows you to
choose one of your pages to be "home" page instead of the posts or
instead of creating a home.php file.  It works in 1.5.2 but not in the
latest 1.6, by rewriting requests for / to whatever page.

I can't see any reason why WordPress should exclude the rewrite rules
*only* for the root page.

I submitted the ticket: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1864