Archive of pages uses home.php template

[ptahdunbar]

via michael@… on wphackers

Running the following query from the location bar will produce a list of
all pages on a site: ?post_type=page. In the event that the theme has a
home.php template, this template will be used to display the archive. I
believe that home.php is intended to be used only when the "Blog" is being
queried (posts with a post_type of "post" with no modifiers). All custom
post types fall back to index.php if there is no dedicated template
however, pages are somehow triggering home.php.

The bug is due to the page post type not having a has_archive defined. patch provided.

[nacin]

I've replied to the thread. This isn't a bug, and that wouldn't be the fix. Pages don't have archives; ending up on home.php is the proper drill-down behavior.

​http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2011-April/014149.html

[scribu]

I agree that ticket.17033.diff​ wouldn't be a correct fix in any case.

This isn't a bug in the template hierarchy, as nacin said.

However, if pages don't have archives, then shouldn't ?post_type=page be ignored completely? i.e. stripped out before it reaches $wp_query.

This should of course apply to all archive-less public post types.

[scribu]

The idea would be that a random visitor shouldn't be able to get a list of pages via URL, unless it's explicitly enabled by a plugin.

[ptahdunbar]

Replying to nacin:

I've replied to the thread. This isn't a bug, and that wouldn't be the fix. Pages don't have archives; ending up on home.php is the proper drill-down behavior.

​http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2011-April/014149.html

Hmm. Well it just seems like a weird behavior for home.php but after reading your reply in the mailing list, I guess I didn't understand it's correct behavior.

[scribu]

Follow-up: #17040