[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #63100: Clicking The Edit Site Link Loads The Page Editor Instead of The Site Editor

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#63100: Clicking The Edit Site Link Loads The Page Editor Instead of The Site
Editor
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 Reporter:  jeffr0        |       Owner:  joemcgill
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  reviewing
 Priority:  high          |   Milestone:  6.8
Component:  Editor        |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:
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Comment (by Mamaduka):

 I think it's better to punt this to the next major release. As far as I
 can tell from code history, the current behavior is intentional. When a
 site doesn't have a `front-page` template, the static homepage is treated
 as just another page.

 The behavior difference became more noticeable after we had to revert the
 new default rendering mode - https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-
 develop/pull/8557. As I noted in that PR, we don't want to reintroduce a
 special case for the rendering mode in the site editor because the whole
 point of the default rendering mode setting is consistency.

 Consumers/developers can opt in to the previous behavior by changing the
 default rendering mode for Pages:

 {{{#!php
 <?php
 // Set default mode to template-locked. Use this for testing.
 add_action( 'init', function() {
         add_post_type_support( 'page', 'editor', array(
                 'default-mode' => 'post-only',
         ) );
 } );
 }}}

 The bigger question here is whether the Site Editor should treat a static
 Homepage differently. We can continue that discussion in this GitHub
 issue: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/63783.

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