/?p=0 (which seems to output latest blog posts
I think /?p=0 is probably an invalid value. You can most likely demonstrate the same results (returning the default) by passing any other unrecognized value you like. Ex: site.com/?p=cheeseandcrackers = default blog page.
is this not an easy way to create a blog page?
What exactly are you asking? You mean programmatically?
I mean visit any of these:
//http://seacoastwebservice.com/?p=0
//http://seacoastwebservice.com/blog
(pages are identical, blog is at /blog)
//http://swansonphotosonline.com/?p=0
//http://swansonphotosonline.com/
(pages are identical, front page is blog page)
//http://chadmlorion.com/?p=0
(This site has no set blog page, yet ‘/?p=0’ takes you a blog page)
And perhaps yes to programmatically. I was actually reviewing this post, and thought WP would be trying to find /?p=0, so I checked a few sites (guess I never thought of this question before) and low and behold… /?p=0 takes us to a blog page.
The themes are not the same on all sites. Three different blog page scenarios…
If above is true, what page template is WP trying to use…archive.php? And, if so, why do I not just write a simple rewrite or redirect rule for /blog to /?p=0 ??
What happens at your sites?
And, it seems that WPPageNavi is at default settings when /?p=0 is used at first set of links…second or third set integrate WPPageNavi. So then it is not using a theme template??
And, I guess the first set of links are not identical as with /?p=0 ignores the excerpts and is displaying full posts, while /blog is doing what I told it to…
Just curious about anything in WP Core (or maybe in all these themes) that makes /?p=0 output a page of posts…
And last (for now,) it does seem that /?p=cheeseandcrackers has same effect as does /?p=0000..so, is there an easier way to add a blog page to a theme that does not have one except when set at front page (like twentyeleven)??? When this query is ‘invalid’…what piece of code says, well then do ‘this’???
After reading all of that, I still don’t quite understand what you actually want to accomplish.
is there an easier way to add a blog page to a theme that does not have one except when set at front page (like twentyeleven)???
Easier than allowing the user to make that choice from the settings in the dashboard, you mean?
Maybe take a look at some of the information on first_post_guid and returning values using the get_option , function – think get_option(‘home’) – ie.. where the value = ‘/?p=X’ (or whatever)
When this query is ‘invalid’…what piece of code says, well then do ‘this’???
Wouldn’t that just be consistent with the expected behavior when passing an undefined variable?
..I don’t know. I don’t have the answer to your question. Maybe one of the PHP gurus will see this and break it down into something helpful for you.
Good luck with your research!
I understand the confusion, so am I. Why does WP not just return a 404 etc. It does not. It creates a blog post page.
Like this does:
http://seacoastwebservice.com/p=23569
? in there has same result…
