[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):

 Replying to [comment:119 helen]:
 > We need to make the UI simpler, not more complex with more choices.

 Have seen
 [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16379?replyto=119#comment:114 my
 reply above]? I already tried to simplify it automating most of the
 choices depending on what is present in the Theme.

 > If one selects (in the current UI) "A static page" and selects nothing
 from the drop-downs, 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:120>
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