Front Page On/Off Option in a Child Theme

Hello

I am building a child theme for Cloriato and am noticing that the front page will no longer turn off (become a blog archive) vie theme options

I think that the critical piece of code gets executed in functions.php (see below) but am not really understanding what happens here or why it would act differently in a child theme

PHP:

//Front Page Rename
$get_status=get_option('re_nm');
$get_file_ac=TEMPLATEPATH.'/front-page.php';
$get_file_dl=TEMPLATEPATH.'/front-page-hold.php';
//True Part
if($get_status==='off' && file_exists($get_file_ac)){
rename("$get_file_ac", "$get_file_dl");
}
//False Part
if($get_status==='on' && file_exists($get_file_dl)){
rename("$get_file_dl", "$get_file_ac");
}

Otherwise I am really liking this theme!

Thanks for any help

 

I thought I should also mention that ours is a MultiSite installation and that the root directory for the network itself is also a sub directory (/root/wordpress/blog-A and /root/wordpress/blog-B etc) in case this is a path problem

Thanks again!

 

Yes, Maybe multisite installation is creating this issue at your site.
To off front page, rename it. like front-page1.php.
It will resolve your issue.

 

Thanks Nitesh

I changed the name of front-page.php to front-page1.php in my child theme folder as you suggested and it worked!

It now responds to theme options in the WordPress admin

Anyway - I was just wondering why and how that worked (if you have the time to explain it)

Thanks again!

 

Never mind Nitesh

I think I figured it out