homepage

Timeout when loading Home Page, correctly load other pages in front or admin

Homepage Duplicated with each Post

There was a thread on wp-hackers in December which could be related: Avoid query_post on frontpage on wp initialization. You may give Sergey Biryukov’s code a try: I was able to cancel the initial query with this code in the active theme’s functions.php file: function cancel_first_query() { remove_filter(‘posts_request’, ‘cancel_first_query’); return ”; } add_filter(‘posts_request’, ‘cancel_first_query’);

You’re misunderstanding the purpose of home.php, which is not necessarily to output the Site Front Page, but rather to output the Blog Posts Index. In WordPress, the index.php is simply the default fallback template file, that is used when no other, more-specific template file is available.