[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16379: Better UI for doing "Page on Front"

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#16379: Better UI for doing "Page on Front"
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 Reporter:  markjaquith                       |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                            |   Milestone:  Awaiting
Component:  Administration                    |  Review
 Severity:  normal                            |     Version:  3.1
 Keywords:  needs-patch 3.5-early jane-likes  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by chipbennett):

 Replying to [comment:19 mikeschinkel]:
 > Replying to [comment:18 chipbennett]:
 > > It is (perhaps unfortunately) well-established in WordPress that
 "home" refers to the '''Blog Posts Index''', and "front page" refers to
 the '''Site Front Page'''.
 >
 > I would debate that it is ''"well-established"'', at least the point of
 clarity and understanding. I've been working with WordPress professionally
 for 3+ years and I ''still'' get confused by this terminology.  God help
 someone who doesn't live-and-breath WordPress to be able to understand it
 as it is currently applied.

 By ''well-established'', I am referring to how the terms are used '''in
 core'''.

 >
 > Jane's suggestion makes a lot of sense IMO as those who pay enough
 attention to already understand it will certainly read the articles
 explaining how things have changed.

 And I counter that this change will only make things ''more'' confusing,
 especially for developers, by introducing ''even more conflation'' of the
 terms ''home'' and ''front page''; primarily, conflation of ''home'' as
 ''site front page'' as opposed to ''blog posts index''.

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