[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #45764: blog page and homepage the same list pages and not posts

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#45764: blog page and homepage the same list pages and not posts
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 Reporter:  BackuPs       |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |     Version:  5.0.2
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:
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Comment (by BackuPs):

 Hi

 I am sorry but i have the feeling that you are not reading what my issue
 is or trying to understand the problem if i read your answers.

 Because wp gives you a **WARNING message** that the pages set in the
 reading settings should not be the same does not mean that it does not
 work and that you can't do so. You could and can do so. And if you did you
 got a list of posts when you opened that page.

 If you can't then build in a check and if somebody does this then just
 don't save one of them and revert one of the two back to -- select --
 instead of displaying a warning message.

 There are two issues in my report here about WP 5.0.2 !

 1) Before in earlier versions 4.9.x when you did set both to the same
 page, the homepage just listed the posts when you did so.  Now it is
 listing the pages. Why? Apparently you can set them the same as you get
 some result but different then before. I dont want to see the pages. I
 want to see the posts like it used to be before in wp 4.9x.

 My question is why am i getting the pages listed in my homepage and not
 the posts when i set the Home Page and Blog Page the same?

 Why did WP change this behaviour? What reason can WP have to do this? I am
 not saying this is a bug as WP changed this behaviour.

 But if you can't set them the same why is it showing me a page list and
 not a post list like before? Apparently something changed for a reason !
 Which one?

 2) (Read carefully as this is a bug in my opinion and a different problem)
 Before if you only set any page to the Post Page and left the Home page to
 -- Select --, the Blog Page, when viewed in the front of your website,
 showed you a list of posts...... What do you get now in WP 5.0.2? Nothing
 ! No posts at all. This is incorrect. This used to work also correctly in
 wp 4.9.x !



 It is not about what you can't, It's about what you could and can and what
 is shown. I want to see the posts in both cases ( 1) and 2) ) like it
 worked before in previous wp versions.

 WP users sometimes set these settings and when they do, the info should be
 consistent and show the same like it did since day one of WP:  It showed
 the posts !

 I came across this issue because people where complaining about getting
 the wrong results. So i tested it with the theme they where using and saw
 the problem. Then of course i started testing with the default themes to
 rule out any issues with the theme they where using and i got the same
 results. Even the default WP themes have the issue now.

 So i belive it is not a theme issue (the easy, without testing, answer i
 guess), but a wp issue. Try to understand the problem here and try not to
 focus about what you can't and should not do because of a warning message
 in the admin area.

 Before it always worked correctly and now it does not anymore. Something
 has changed and I wonder what and want to know why? If you can't set the
 same then why suddenly change the behaviour of the results? That does not
 make any sense. If it's not allowed to make the the same then why even
 bother changing the code?

 I would like to know if there is a fix to have the correct results like it
 used to work in previous wp versions and a fix for issue 2) as that i
 believe is a BUG !

 It is as really simple as that.

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