[wp-hackers] the home.php problem: does it asks for a posts.php?

[Cátia Kitahara]

> In a bespoke development, the developer is an agent of the user, who is the
> client. There's no reason that the developer, who develops the Theme,
> installs the Theme, and configures the Theme can't also make the necessary
> reading settings changes to ensure the site properly displays a static
> front page.
>

I agree, I'm not saying that's not possible, that's what we do here. I'm
saying that this is not ideal.


> Nevertheless, the use case you describe is not one that is shared by the
> vast majority of WordPress users, and the ability of the Theme to dictate
> what appears as the site front page would be detrimental to that vast
> majority.
>

I wouldn't say the vast majority, I'd stick with just majority. If you've
seem the 2012 WordPress Survey results, you know that there's a great
amount of people outhere using WordPress to build sites for large
businesses, government, non profits, etc.
http://www.slideshare.net/photomatt/wordpress-state-of-the-word-2012 slide
85 (I don't know the accuracy of this graphic, but it seems it's almost
half/half).

But it's not the point, we're not talking about themes made to be
distributed to the vast or just the majority, we're talking about themes
that are made exclusively to a client. It's not detrimental to anybody if
it's what the client asked and paid for.

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Cátia Kitahara
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