[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          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |
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Comment (by markmcwilliams):

 Replying to [ticket:16379 markjaquith]:
 > 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.
 In some respects I'd disagree that 1 and 3 made sense, it all depends on
 the purpose of your front page yes, and how you want to display things
 right? If you had a custom Page Template, which didn't require any text
 input, you've effectively got a dummy front page here. Now I don't know
 how we could use the {{{front-page.php}}}
 [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy#Front_Page_display
 template], I suppose I need to get my head around how it works! :)

 > 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.
 I was thinking out loud the other day in #wordpress-dev before @nacin
 pointed me in the direction of this ticket (which I couldn't initially
 find) on possibly using the new CPT Archives we introduced in 3.1? I think
 it makes perfect sense, not fully sure how it could be executed, so that
 we can retain backwords compatibility (as @nacin also pointed out to me!)
 -- Anyway, thought I'd just air my thoughts!

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