Comments on: Apology: Not Useless Code

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Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:55:43 +0000

[...] Andy Skelton: Apology: Not Useless Code really clicked with me. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to say “Um, you’re wrong” when people pontificate on their “expertise” of WordPress and blogging. Andy has done so beautifully in describing the WordPress Loop and how it isn’t useless coding. [...]

By: Milorad

Milorad — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:49:28 +0000

Hacking core to prove yourself right is a completely valid course of action

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:00:49 +0000

Glad you finally come clean Though I thought you would have fix core to make your lie a truth. (If I recall that was partially done was an example of trying to view a draft when logged out using the Sandbox was uncovered last year)

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:40:06 +0000

Scott: Confirmed: the page.php template also needs if ( have_posts() ). Thanks!

I was working on a patch to add Sandbox to core when this problem resurfaced. That’s why this post.

I do not know why WordPress does not issue 404s for these queries and use the 404.php template. It is intentional but the reason is undocumented. Anybody know?

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:18:33 +0000

I had sort of forgotten about this. I would consider it extra strength usage. Which is good!

So if /?page_id=9999 is a regular query for an invalid page, shouldn’t a 404 be issued, eg, sndbx.org/?page_id=9999? Perhaps we should tag this for Sandbox.