Home Page fails to use page template sometimes

[filosofo]

If a page is the home page but not also the front page and it has a page template, the page template is ignored. This behavior is counter-intuitive:

• When editing the home-page page, either normally or with quick edit, the page template is shown as being the template.
• When acting as a front page, a page uses its page template if available.

[acsnaterse]

I've the same problem here, but this solution seems not to work for me.

I've tried to debug it a bit as far as I could and I found that on line 1415/1416 of query.php it's going wrong.

On a "working" install the $_query is empty when you have a page template as homepage. If it's not empty it should have the array keys that are in the if-statement.

However on the install where it goes wrong, this is the content (print_r) of the $_query array:

Array
(
    [page] => 
    [pagename] => 
)

Of course I can change the if statement, so it will also match these two keys, but I don;t feel that would be the right solution.

Anyone?

[acsnaterse]

Don't know what it was exactly, but it seems to work all now by using the latest nightly (from 14-12-2010).. so my comment above can be ignored..

[ryan]

(In [16915]) Honor the page template when a page is the home page but not also the front page. Props filosofo. fixes #15513

[nacin]

Hmm: #15945

[nacin]

Per #15945 and IRC discussion.

• Revert for 3.1. Punt to 3.2.

• Block or reset page templates for home pages. May need an upgrade routine. Need to prevent #15945 from affecting existing pages suddenly changing on core update.

• Re-commit [16915].

[obenland]

Let's not do this. We can't assume all page templates run the loop in a way that displays post correctly.

With the patch applied, Twenty Fourteen activated, and the Contributor page template active on the page_for_posts, this is what happens: ​https://cloudup.com/cwLUMKHS1Ht

We also still haven't figured out a way to avoid #15945.