id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
16002,Static homepage not displaying as expected in 3.1-RC1,donalmacarthur,,"I've noticed that if I set a static page as my homepage in 3.1-RC1, the page does not display as the site's front page. Instead the blog page is shown. If I revert to 3.03, the static homepage displays as expected.

I've tried this in two themes, including the copy of Twenty Ten bundled with 3.1-RC1, and the behaviour is identical in both.

There are a number of posts on the issue on the support forums here: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-home-page-not-showing-31]

The problem seems to be related to the permalink structure used. I've been doing some experimenting and this is the behaviour I've noticed so far:

If I use the default permalink structure (or any of the preset options), the problem disappears and the static homepage works as expected.

If I set a custom permalink structure with the format /%postname%/ or /%category%/%postname%/ the problem reappears.

If I set a custom permalink structure with the format /articles/%postname%/ the problem disappears.

It seems that including a static element in the custom permalink solves the problem, whatever it is.

",defect (bug),closed,normal,3.1,General,3.1,normal,fixed,needs-patch,