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16379	"Better UI for doing ""Page on Front"""	markjaquith		"[[Image(http://grab.by/grabs/132427e6c1166ed3e4d8214959b9568a.png)]]

This is the existing ""Page on Front"" UI. The process is as follows:

 1. Create a ""Front"" Page
 2. Create a ""Blog"" Page
 3. Select the ""Front"" Page in the ""Front Page"" dropdown
 4. Select the ""Blog"" Page in the ""Blog Page"" dropdown.

1 and 3 make sense. If you want a page on front, then you obviously need to create a page to live there, along with its content, and then designate it. But the ""Blog"" page is just a dummy. It's sole purpose is to create and maintain a URL for your blog. So why not just have something like this?

Blog URL: http://example.com/ {input box}

If a page exists in the URL they type, it gets used. If not, we create one on the fly as a dummy. This seems a more natural way of doing it. You don't care about the dummy page — you just want to choose an appropriate URL for your blog."	task (blessed)	new	normal	Future Release	Administration	3.1	normal		needs-patch	janeforshort mikeschinkel@… chip@… ben@… sararcannon@… sabreuse@… melissachoyce@… Ken@… marty@… saltcod jeremy@… bootsz markoheijnen simon@… leogermani emzo xoodrew@… brad@… wp_trac@… fittingsites@… bordoni.dev@… mdhansen@… navjotjsingh@… pbearne@… joseph@… pauldewouters@… j.yzbek@…