Static Front Page and Blog Home Page Layouts

WP Theme: Hueman
Display the static Front page using the Standard Blog List layout, and the blog Home page using the default post list layout

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<!-- front-page.php
This is a copy of index.php with the following changes:
 1. the main loop is replaced with a custom query
 2. added a query reset after the loop is processed
-->

<?php get_header(); ?>

<section class="content">

    <?php get_template_part('inc/page-title'); ?>

    <div class="pad group">

        <?php get_template_part('inc/featured'); ?>


        <!-- if there are featured posts and they aren't included in the post previews -->
        <?php if ( ot_get_option('featured-posts-count') != '0' && ( !ot_get_option('featured-posts-include') ) ): ?>
            <?php $featured_post_ids = get_featured_post_ids(); ?>
            <?php $args = array( 'post_type'=>'post', 'post__not_in'=>$featured_post_ids ); ?>
        <?php else: ?>
            <?php $args = array( 'post_type'=>'post' ); ?>
        <?php endif; ?>
        <?php $frontpage_posts = new WP_query($args); ?>


        <?php if ( $frontpage_posts->have_posts() ) : ?>

            <?php if ( ot_get_option('blog-standard') == 'on' ): ?>
                <?php while ( $frontpage_posts->have_posts() ): $frontpage_posts->the_post(); ?>
                    <?php get_template_part('content-standard'); ?>
                <?php endwhile; ?>
            <?php else: ?>
                <div class="post-list group">
                <?php $i = 1; echo '<div class="post-row">'; while ( $frontpage_posts->have_posts() ): $frontpage_posts->the_post(); ?>
                    <?php get_template_part('content'); ?>
                <?php if($i % 2 == 0) { echo '</div><div class="post-row">'; } $i++; endwhile; echo '</div>'; ?>
                </div><!--/.post-list-->
            <?php endif; ?>

            <?php get_template_part('inc/pagination'); ?>

            <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

        <?php endif; ?>

    </div><!--/.pad-->

</section><!--/.content-->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>
<!-- End of front-page.php -->

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<!-- home.php
This is a copy of index.php with the following changes:
 1. the featured posts slider has been removed
 2. the check for blog-standard has been reversed so the page display is the opposite of front-page.php
-->

<?php get_header(); ?>

<section class="content">

    <?php get_template_part('inc/page-title'); ?>

    <div class="pad group">

    <?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>

            <!-- reverse the criteria so it displays the Standard Post List when the option is OFF -->
            <?php if ( ot_get_option('blog-standard') != 'on' ): ?>
                <?php while ( have_posts() ): the_post(); ?>
                    <?php get_template_part('content-standard'); ?>
                <?php endwhile; ?>
            <?php else: ?>
                <div class="post-list group">
                <?php $i = 1; echo '<div class="post-row">'; while ( have_posts() ): the_post(); ?>
                    <?php get_template_part('content'); ?>
                <?php if($i % 2 == 0) { echo '</div><div class="post-row">'; } $i++; endwhile; echo '</div>'; ?>
                </div><!--/.post-list-->
            <?php endif; ?>

            <?php get_template_part('inc/pagination'); ?>

        <?php endif; ?>

    </div><!--/.pad-->

</section><!--/.content-->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>
<!-- End of home.php -->

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In /inc/featured.php change TWO lines

from this:
<?php if ( is_home() && !is_paged() && ( ot_get_option('featured-posts-count')

to this:
<?php if ( is_front_page() && !is_paged() && ( ot_get_option('featured-posts-count')

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In /inc/page-title.php, at the top of the file

change this:
    <?php if ( is_home() ) : ?>
        <h2><?php echo alx_blog_title(); ?></h2>

to this:
    <!-- add check for_static Front Page -->
    <?php if ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) : ?>
        <h2><?php echo alx_blog_title(); ?></h2>

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Add these two functions, including the // comment lines, to your child theme functions.php file


// Since the Blog page doesn't have Featured Posts we need to include all
// posts on that page. Override default theme pre_get_posts function.
function alx_pre_get_posts( $query ) {}


// copy of alx_get_featured_post_ids but it needs to be local
function get_featured_post_ids() {
    $args = array(
        'category'  => ot_get_option('featured-category'),
        'numberposts'   => ot_get_option('featured-posts-count')
    );
    $posts = get_posts($args);
    if ( !$posts ) return false;
    foreach ( $posts as $post )
        $ids[] = $post->ID;
    return $ids;
}

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