Concerns about standard-posts.php

[mfields]

After some thought, I would strongly suggest not including this page template in the theme. The main reason is that using a page to display posts goes against the general flow of how WordPress' query system is designed which can and will lead to conflicts with plugins. One such example would be a plugin that expects is_home() to return true when the most recent posts are displayed.

I would propose using core functionality as much as possible here. You should be able to instruct users to set up a "post page" under Settings -> Reading -> Front page displays. You can then add an option giving user's a choice to have the image and gallery formatted posts removed where is_home() returns true. You should be able to hook into the pre_get_posts action to remove the unwanted posts.

[devinsays]

Okay, that's one option I considered when building this out. I'll go that direction instead.