Title: using "/?p=0" Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # using "/?p=0" * [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/) * (@swansonphotos) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-p0/) * Looked for information on site.com/**?p=0** (which seems to output latest blog posts). Where is this documented and is this not an easy way to create a blog page? Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/) * (@claytonjames) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-p0/#post-4389269) * > /?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? * Thread Starter [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/) * (@swansonphotos) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-p0/#post-4389287) * 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](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/url_to_postid-does-not-work-on-homepage?replies=2), 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? * Thread Starter [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/) * (@swansonphotos) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-p0/#post-4389294) * 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… * Thread Starter [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/) * (@swansonphotos) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-p0/#post-4389295) * 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’??? * [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/) * (@claytonjames) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-p0/#post-4389302) * 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 ](http://wordpress.org/search/first_post_guid) and returning values using the [get_option ](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/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! * Thread Starter [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/) * (@swansonphotos) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-p0/#post-4389303) * 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](http://seacoastwebservice.com/p=23569) * Thread Starter [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/) * (@swansonphotos) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-p0/#post-4389311) * ? in there has same result… Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘using "/?p=0"’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [id](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/id/) * [post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 7 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/) * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-p0/#post-4389311) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics