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@stefhz Unfortunately Themify’s official response was:

It is not within our support policy to troubleshoot for third party plugins.
As you can imagine WP has thousands of plugins, each coded differently and each conflicting with other plugins. We cannot troubleshoot for all plugins.

You should contact the developers of the plugin and ask them to look into the issue.

Pretty stupid and myopic if you ask me, but c’est la vie.

In case this helps anyone, I identified the plugin conflict. It was with a Themify plugin called Themify Portfolio Posts. I’ve posted in the Themify support forum and will update here if anything gets resolved.

Couple options that may work for you:

1. Have you tried reordering the arguments so that title_li comes last?

<?php
wp_list_pages('
sort_column=post_title&
include=4&
meta_key=cluster&
meta_value=info&
title_li=' ) ?>

2. Use the method described here:
https://contents-magic.com/29/wordpress/including-a-better-navigation-for-wordpress-pages/

$PageOptions =array(
'title_li' => '',
'meta_key'=>'cluster',
'meta_value'=>'info'
);
wp_list_pages($PageOptions);

Moshu, the issue as I understand it from the original poster and from my own experience is that when WP is set to use a Static Page as the front page, the home.php template method simply does not work.

I could also have created a totally new file, say home_template.php, made it into a template in exactly the same way, and applied that to my designated Static Page. Which is actually what I did initially.

But rather than having a home_template.php and a home.php file, I tried applying the template name to the home.php file directly.

And, it worked. It’s doing the job I need it to do without any extraneous files.

I had this same problem. As per Creating your own Page Templates I decided to try giving home.php a name like this:

/*
Template Name: Home Template
*/

Then I just set that to be the Page Template for my specific Page using the options on the right side of the Write Page screen.

Note, it appears that the ‘Page Template’ option does not show up on the Write Page screen unless you have created some named templates.

Hope that helps.

Can anyone give some guidance on how to do this in WP 2.1.2?

I’ve located the relevant function in wp-includes\query.php but the code has changed and I’m having a hard time deciphering it.