[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:  Administration  |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch     |
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Comment (by F J Kaiser):

 After trying to understand the current behavior (what is is supposed to
 do) for a pretty long time, I was (gladly) pointed at this ticket.

 Here're my 0.2 cents:

 If one selects (in "as it is"-UI) "A static page" and selects nothing,
 then WP automatically resets it to "Your latest posts" without any further
 notice why this happened. When I got a {{{home.php}}} and a {{{front-
 page.php}}} file in my theme, then I'd expect WP to use them by default,
 not only if I've created and selected a page for it. This simply isn't
 needed in every case (front page with just a title and a searchform for
 e.g.), so why force it? Or at least tell - in some admin notice - that
 there has to be a real site instead of just moving to a setting the user
 never made by himself.

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16379#comment:114>
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