wp-signup.php & wp-activate.php are doing an avoidable posts query

[imath]

Hi,

If in the reading settings of the site, i chose to list my latest posts as the home page: going on wp-signup.php or wp-activate.php will query & fetch the 10 latests posts for nothing in a way. Moreover In this case is_home() is true which is a bit confusing.

If in the reading settings of the site, i chose a static front page as the home page, it will be requested and fetched when going on wp-signup.php or wp-activate.php. In this case is_page() is true which is less confusing.

So i guess, the particularity of these two specific pages is they're getting the header and the footer of the active theme.

But i wonder why running wp() ?

By simply directly loading the wp-includes/template-loader.php it can save a query.

see signup-activate-1.patch

If running wp() is required for a reason i don't see, a query could still be saved and it could be interested to use this to set a "page" title for the <title> tag.

see signup-activate-2.patch

[johnjamesjacoby]

This is interesting. Good find.

I can't think of a problem with this, other than someone doing something weird that would still require the $wp_did_header check.

[sabernhardt]

I refreshed the patches for both options. I like having a special title for each page (option 2).