[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:  task (blessed)     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Posts, Post Types  |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  normal             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch        |     Focuses:  administration
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Comment (by JakePT):

 Replying to [comment:137 folletto]:
 > I personally think that the "blog" page should be virtual, not a real
 page: it's exactly the same thing as the archives page, just that instead
 of being filtered by month, it's the latest posts. The option there would
 be the ability to change its name.
 >
 > Doing that, will avoid having a "page" hanging around that is really
 used for the URL only, and confuses users by showing up in the page
 hierarchy with actual content apparently editable.
 >
 > This will reduce also the need of such a double dropdown, since the only
 thing one will have to select is "what do you want to show on the
 homepage?", a single list, a single check, much much more intuitive. :)

 I disagree, quite strongly. In my experience, relatively non-technical
 clients think of the blog as a "page" on their website. I've also used it
 as a way to let clients name the blog page something like Latest News, set
 its slug, add a blurb to the page (with template support) add it to menus,
 and allow them to set a featured image for a banner or something on the
 latest posts page.

 I would go so far as to say that custom post types should have the
 capability to create a dummy page of their own, and work the same way.
 I've even added this functionality to other post types sites myself, since
 it made it so much easier for the client to manage.

 I've found that it's considerably more intuitive to manage the blog
 section of a website if it has some presence as a page, as opposed to some
 sort of invisible URL.

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