TT1 Blocks: Delete front-page.html

[carolinan]

Solves #167

[kjellr]

I think we do actually need a separate template here — since Twenty Twenty-One hides the homepage title on the homepage automatically. It should probably have a query block, but with no page title.

[carolinan]

If we did that, the list of blog posts would also not have titles.

We do not have traditional PHP conditionals, but we do have CSS. We can work around it, but a long term solution
needs to be figured out for the editor.

.home:not(.blog) .wp-block-post-title,
.home:not(.blog) .wp-block-post-comments,
.home:not(.blog) .wp-block-post-comments-form {
display: none;
}

This would leave the .wp-block-separator above the content.
Without a wrapper for the "post header" we can not just target the first separator of the page.

That the main element is missing is also a big problem, I opened a new issue. #180.

Perhaps the solution is to allow themes to use .php files and unlimited PHP.
That this decision has been left to Milestone:7 Gradual Adoption is problematic.

Or, we need to introduce another context for "home" and "blog".

[kjellr]

Hmm. That's a good point. Perhaps for now we do remove the front-page.html template, and discuss how to support the separate "single page w/no title" template in a separate issue. cc @scruffian for thoughts too.

[scruffian]

Yeah we will definitely need to fix this in Gutenberg. I created an issue here: WordPress/gutenberg#28564

Happy to remove the template for now, but I'd rather not fix it with CSS.

[kjellr]

Sounds good. This should be good to merge in the meantime!

[mtias]

Agreed front-page doesn't make much sense. The relationship between front-page, home, page template, and the static homepage setting are all a bit confusing in WordPress. Would it make sense to have a page-home template for the case of no title?

I think more generally we need make the "hide a title" something much more flexible across the board, for pages and posts alike — maybe a part of the post-title block setting a body-class or post-class.

[scruffian]

That's what I did here: https://github.com/WordPress/theme-experiments/pull/184/files