[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 Review
Component:  Administration  |    Version:  3.1
 Severity:  normal          |   Keywords:
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 This is the existing "Page on Front" UI. The process is as follows:

  1. Create a "Front" Page
  2. Create a "Blog" Page
  3. Select the "Front" Page in the "Front Page" dropdown
  4. Select the "Blog" Page in the "Blog Page" dropdown.

 1 and 3 make sense. If you want a page on front, then you obviously need
 to create a page to live there, along with its content, and then designate
 it. But the "Blog" page is just a dummy. It's sole purpose is to create
 and maintain a URL for your blog. So why not just have something like
 this?

 Blog URL: http://example.com/ {input box}

 If a page exists in the URL they type, it gets used. If not, we create one
 on the fly as a dummy. This seems a more natural way of doing it. You
 don't care about the dummy page — you just want to choose an appropriate
 URL for your blog.

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