[wp-hackers] the home.php problem: does it asks for a posts.php?

[Chip Bennett]

I believe the Trac ticket linked up-thread addresses some of these UX
issues...

Chip

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Bill Erickson <bill.erickson at gmail.com>wrote:

> I agree with Chip. If you don't want your client changing site options like
> what page shows up on the front page, don't make them an admin of the site.
>
> But I also agree with a few commenters that it can be confusing to see a
> blank page in the admin. A useful addition might be to add a little notice
> to the top of the Edit Page screen if the current page is set as the Posts
> page.
>
> The Page Links To plugin by Mark Jaquith does something similar when you
> redirect a page to another URL: http://twitpic.com/aopuwe
>
> I'm sure there's a plugin that already does this (and if not, it should
> only take a few minutes to create).
>
>
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> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
> wrote:
>
> > In a bespoke development, the developer is an agent of the user, who is
> the
> > client. There's no reason that the developer, who develops the Theme,
> > installs the Theme, and configures the Theme can't also make the
> necessary
> > reading settings changes to ensure the site properly displays a static
> > front page.
> >
> > Nevertheless, the use case you describe is not one that is shared by the
> > vast majority of WordPress users, and the ability of the Theme to dictate
> > what appears as the site front page would be detrimental to that vast
> > majority.
> >
> > Chip
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Cátia Kitahara <
> > contato at catiakitahara.com.br> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, everyone,
> > >
> > > I'm Cátia, from Brazil, I'm new here, but this discussion interests me,
> > > because I agree with Leo.
> > >
> > > As a theme developer, what Im looking for is a way to force what will
> be
> > > > displayed in the front page and where the visitor will find the blog.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > It's not the purpose of the *Theme* to dictate what is displayed on
> the
> > > > front page. That is a decision for the end user, and the end user
> > alone.
> > > >
> > >
> > > You're assuming that this end user is the kind who's got a personal
> blog
> > or
> > > small business site that he himself maintain, who might want to change
> > the
> > > theme whenever he wants from the admin. But if you suppose this end
> user
> > is
> > > a bigger client who paid us to develop his site, from the information
> > > architecture to the deploy, he is indeed paying someone to dictate what
> > is
> > > displayed on the front page, this decision is done beforehand, so he
> > > wouldn't want to let this option open to anyone with access to the
> admin
> > to
> > > change it. Do you understand what I mean?
> > > That's our worries!
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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> > > www.catiakitahara.com.br
> > > www.wp-brasil.org
> > > www.hacklab.com.br
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