[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #39760: Saving blank tag field on Twenty Fourteen

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#39760: Saving blank tag field on Twenty Fourteen
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 Reporter:  gemmaevans    |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Themes        |    Version:  4.7.2
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                |
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 A user posted on the WordPress.com forums for advice about why sticky
 posts were appearing on their static front page, rather than only on the
 posts page:

 http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/sticky-blog

 We discovered that if no posts match the featured content tag, sticky
 posts will be displayed instead.

 '''What I expected'''

 I expected to be able to remove the Featured Content (and sticky posts)
 area from a static front page and only have it show on the posts page.

 The Customizer lets me remove and save an empty 'Tag name' field. If I
 navigate away from the Customizer and go back into Featured Content, the
 featured tag appears back in the 'Tag field'. I have replicated this
 behaviour on both my self hosted site and my WordPress.com test site.

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