[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21665: Allow non-editable pages to be classified & organized as "System Pages"

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#21665: Allow non-editable pages to be classified & organized as "System Pages"
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 Reporter:  bootsz                              |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request                     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                              |   Milestone:  Awaiting
Component:  UI                                  |  Review
 Severity:  normal                              |     Version:
 Keywords:  dev-feedback has-patch ux-feedback  |  Resolution:
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Comment (by bootsz):

 Replying to [comment:21 ryan]:
 > Also, this only goes into effect once a template is selected since we
 can't read minds. So the initial selection of the template will still be
 confusing. And once a template is added or changed the user could get a
 much different UI after saving. "All I did was set the template. Why did
 everything disappear?" Especially if the old template used content and the
 new one does not. "Where's my data? Why can't I change it?"

 That's a good point.  I think the solution would involve showing some kind
 of message to explain why the editor isn't appearing.  Which was one of
 the first proposed changes to "page for posts":
 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/17470/patch.diff

 If possible, maybe even still show the editor with the page's content but
 have it grayed-out and not changeable, so people don't freak out and think
 they're content is lost.  And then just show a message like "The current
 page template does not support the page editor." or something like that.

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